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Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting.
If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.
The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.
We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.
I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
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 always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.
The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.
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 like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
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.
Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.
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.
As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.
I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
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.
I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.
I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.