I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

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.

For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.

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.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.