The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.