Meryl Streep

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.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word.

Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot.

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

Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

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.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.