It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the “Devil Wears Prada” that we’re all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.
Interestingly, young people don’t come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can’t argue with them. That’s their perception.
I’m thrilled when I get nominated. I don’t count how many and I don’t remember how many I’ve had. I just know it’s a lot.
I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that.
That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
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.
Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.
There’s no road map on how to raise a family: it’s always an enormous negotiation.
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won’t even try.
They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
When you’re an actor and there’s no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.
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.
I’m curious about other people. That’s the essence of my acting. I’m interested in what it would be like to be you.
I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.
Instant gratification is not soon enough.