You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.

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.

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

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.