Sally Field speaks her "goddam" mind...

Love Sally Field and have basically my entire life. Love her in "Brothers & Sisters," "Soapdish," "Norma Rae," "Sybil," "ER," "A Cooler Climate" and, of course, "Gidget." But any gay man who is a Sally fan loves her the most for her performance as Julia Roberts mother in "Steel Magnolias." So many of us can do the entire scene at the cemetery by heart: "Shelby's riiiiight. My hair really does look like a brown football!'" She begins to fi her hair and surrounded by Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis and Darryl Hannah, she just loses it: "I wanna know whhhhhhhyyyyyyy!!!"
Here's a clip:

Anywho, why I just went off on that tangent I do not know. This is really just a set-up to share with you an interview Sally gives in the new Ladies Home Journal.

On "Brothers & Sisters," Sally plays the mother of a soldier injured in the Iraq War. The real-life mother of three sons hads this to say about our soldiers who come home injured: "What's really awful is how poor the help is for these brave men and women once they get home. This country has never respected the mental health of its returning soldiers and they deserve all the help they can get after serving their country. They need sophisticated, ongoing treatment but the expectation is, if you're a soldier, you swallow your feelings and move on. That's a disgrace, an absolute disgrace, and I hope we can address that issue on Brothers & Sisters."

On her Emmy speech which she concluded by saying that if mothers were in charge of the country "there wouldn't be any more goddam wars." "I went back and looked at it again and again," she said. "The only mistake I made was in the next line when I put god in front of damned. But I do think if God would ever damn anything it would be war. Unfortunately, what was lost in the tumult was my intention to pay homage to mothers."

On the acting front, Sally has no plans to have herself nipped or tucked: "I think about it all the time because I see friends who've done it and they look great and younger... I have an ego but it's an actor's ego more than a woman's ego. It's about roles. I'm 61, and as I get older I'm obviously going to be playing older characters. What I would like is to age into roles I want to play the way the great ones did, like Helen Hayes and Lillian Gish."

Sally is supporting the candidacy of Hillary Clinton and here's why: "What dazzles me is how resilient she is. The times she gets slammed, she takes it and grows from it. She gets stronger. We need to get out of some terrible, terrible situations as a country, and I want a President who can take those blows and be stronger. Not stronger in the sense that, I'm going to blow your head off. But stronger in the sense that I'm going to be more informed, more honest, more honorable and those blows won't weaken me. Showing our might clearly didn't work over the last four years. I want stronger in the way that only a mother can be strong."
On feeling sexy, the twice-divorced woman who also had a five-year relationship with Burt Reynolds said: "...the feelings are still alive and thriving. And certainly, feeling that excitement with someone, that heated attraction--I miss that a lot. But too often in my life I've give up things for that. Women often give up pieces of themselves to feel the rush of excitement that comes with sex, usually because they mistake it for true intimacy, and they end up losing. I won't do that again."

On settling down again: "It's not that I'm difficult. I just have such a full life. I don't have any room to let someone else in... I don't look for it, I don't go out, so whoever my soul mate will be, if he's out there, he'll have to come up here and find me."

On pressure and media--and sympathy for Britney: "I can't imagine the pressure these young people are under. I thought it was rough, juggling a high-profile career with raising a family, but now you look at someone like Britney Spears and think, we had it easy. When I began, there were a few fan magazines but there was no Entertainment Tonight and certainly not the 24-hour medica force that the Internet has become."
While Britney appears to have been overwhelmed at being a superstar mom at a young age, Sally embraced motherhood which first happened while she was starring in her second TV series "The Flying Nun" in the mid-60s: "I went through most of my life not knowing who I was. But what saved me was my children. I had children so young--I was 23 when I had my first and had two by the time I was 25--that I didn't have time for anything else. I didn't have time to get real precious with myself. You have to make lunch. You have to get the kids to school. You go to work."