Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.

In the old days it was important, but not as important as it is today, to keep making success after success after success. It's terrifying today. You can maybe have one so-so movie but you've got to come back with another that's huge, if possible, and that must be very, very difficult for young talent.

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.