The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.

And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.