I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.