Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.
I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
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.
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.
It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.
They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.
Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.
When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.
Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
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 family really does come first. It always did and always will.
My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough and why didn't I have Jessica Lange's body or someone else's legs? What a waste of time.
Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.
I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.
Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.
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.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.
How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.
