You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.

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.

How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

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

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.