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

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs.

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.

That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.

Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.