You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or you don't. You have charm or you don't.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

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.