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.

I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.

The work will stand, no matter what.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.

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

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.