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.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.