And the door into this emotion shift is empathy. As Jung said, emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion. Or as Leonard Cohen says, &quotPay attention to the cracks because that&#39s where the light

And the door into this emotion shift is empathy. As Jung said, emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion. Or as Leonard Cohen says, &quotPay attention to the cracks because that&#39s where the light

And because I had been on the squad in high school, earnest full-throated cheerleading was my specialty so that&#39s what I did. But now, I feel like I know about 1/16 of what that young woman knew. Things don&#39t seem as certain today. Now I&#39m 60. I have four adult children who are all facing t

And the door into this emotion shift is empathy. As Jung said, emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark of apathy into movement without emotion. Or as Leonard Cohen says, &quotPay attention to the cracks because that&#39s where the light

This is a huge deal because as people in the movie business know the absolute hardest thing in the whole world is to persuade a straight male audience to identify with a woman protagonist to feel themselves embodied by her. This, more than any other factor, explains why we get the movies we get and

Often men my age, President Clinton, by the way, when I met him said--Men my age, mention that character as their favorite of all the women I&#39ve played. And I have my own secret understanding of why that is and it confirms every decision I made in high school. This is not to denigrate that girl,

Empathy is at the heart of the actor&#39s art. And in high school, another form of acting took hold of me. I wanted to learn how to be appealing. So I studied the character I imagined I wanted to be that of the generically pretty high school girl and I researched her deeply, that is to say shallowly

Women, I feel I can say this authoritatively, especially at Barnard where they can&#39t hear us, what am I talking about? They professionally can&#39t hear us. Women are better at acting than men. Why? Because we have to be, successfull convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn&#3

Never before in the history of our country have most of the advanced degrees been awarded to women but now they are. Since the dawn of men, it&#39s hardly more than 100 years since we were even allowed into these buildings except to clean them, but soon most of law and medical degrees will probably

I got to Vassar which 43 years ago was a single-sex institution, like all the colleges in what they call the Seven Sisters, the female Ivy League and I made some very quick but lifelong and challenging friends. And with their help outside of any competition for boys, my brain woke up. I got up and I

And along with all my other exterior choices, I worked on, what actors call, my interior adjustment. I adjusted my natural temperament which tends to be slightly bossy, a little opinionated, loud, a little loud full of pronouncements and high spirits, and I willfully cultivated softness, agreeablene

I remember very clearly my own first conscious attempt at acting. I was six, placing my mother&#39s half slip over my head in preparation to play the Virgin Mary in our living room. As I swaddled my Betsy Wetsy doll, I felt quiet, holy, actually, and my transfigured face and very changed demeanor ca

When the great director Billy Wilder was asked what makes a movie unforgettable, his answer was simple, &quotA little bit of magic!&quot We&#39re all here tonight or sitting at home watching because something came off a movie screen: a little bit of magic touched our lives. And you always remember w