I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most important thing, is that she win the argument, and there is nothing that stands in the way of that train, you know. But Julia's just alive in front of you. That's part of why people loved her. They lived it with her. They breathed it with her. And the mistakes were all part of it.

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.

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.