"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."
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"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."
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"And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way."
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"Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives."
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"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."
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"On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies."
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"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me."
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"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."
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"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."
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"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."
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"If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try."
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"Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up."
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"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."
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"Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple."
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"We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love."
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"Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment."
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"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."
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"I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself."
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"How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception."
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"I'm all over the place."
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