Holland Taylor's career blossomed in her mid-30s and the New Yorker with Pennsylvania roots has been on a dizzying pace ever since, starring on the stage, in television and on film. I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready," she said, sounding a lot like the over-the-top mother of Jon Cryer she portrays in the CBS comedy "Two and a Half Men." "Then again, maybe I won't ever be ready.Holland Taylor offers no apologies for never settling down, getting married or having children.The 68-year-old Emmy-winning actress, currently starring in her one-woman show "Ann" at Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center, simply never had the time.Having a family just wasn't in the script.I'm very, very happy. I just never was the marrying kind,she said. "I am a serial monogamist. I don't have multiple relationships at once.I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish -- well, I take that back -- there are a couple I could have done without," she added with a chuckle.Taylor's current love is "Ann," which is based on the life of quick-witted, sharp-tongued former Texas Gov. Ann Richards.Taylor said the idea of taking Richards' story to the stage "came to me very suddenly.I was literally driving to work at my television show one day and I had to pull off the highway onto the service road," she recalled. I had the idea it should be a play because of her liveliness and her contact with the audience.She herself said, 'I was good as a candidate over the years only because I connect with people one on one.' I decided right then a play is how it should be done. There were a few days there where I would open the paper, and I would be so frightened to see that something really terrible happened," she said. "I'm glad he escaped that.Holland Taylor is in a good spot these days, healthy, happy and with more job offers than she knows what do with. Just don't expect her to slow down anytime soon.With a laugh, she said she would "commit an ax murder" before attempting to conceal her age.It would seem so silly," she said backstage at the Kennedy Center. "I really, truly genuinely struggled quite hard until I was in my mid-30s. "I personally was at sea.Taylor has perfected Richards' Southern drawl and eerily looks like the Texas politician whose energizing keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention elevated her to widespread prominence.The actress insists she brought Richards' story to the stage not because she could play the role but to celebrate the politician's life.She was not a person who looked back. Ever," Taylor said. "She did not revisit things. She was rolling along, like a wheel that goes under and then over. Under and over. But always moving forward.
