You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

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.

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.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

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