Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?
I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.
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.
In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.
Instant gratification is not soon enough.
I'm all over the place.
For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite thing you've ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn't feel the story through her body.
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 don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
