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

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.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.

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.

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