Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

Well my favorite is really really sharp, extra sharp, aged cheddar cheese.

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.