If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

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'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.