As you get older, you live more life; you have more real experiences that you add to the emotional toolbox without realizing that you’re doing it. And so sometimes, as you get older, quite honestly, emotions are easier to access because they just simmer below the surface all the time — because there’s just so damn many of them.
— Kate Winslet, from “Kate Winslet Pushes Her Characters, and Herself, to the Edge.” (NY Times, March 3, 2024)