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.

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

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.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.