All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

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 yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

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.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.