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.

They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.

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.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.

I love Goodfellows and I love Nick Palleggi, but no, it's The Godfather, 1 and 2.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.