For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move forward in every level of society and it's so frightening. This is all a big reaction to the fact that there are more women in medical school than there are men now and I am pretty sure it will be the same soon in law schools and in business.

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

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.

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.