My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.

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 don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?

How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.