That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.