I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand.