Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.

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 think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

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.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

The work will stand, no matter what.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.