Christine Baranski

And that's the moment of profound sadness.

But if you're talking... No, you're right.

It's infinite sadness when my mother put her head on my chest and said, you don't have a father anymore, of course.

But in my adulthood to lose my brother.

Why was... Oh, we were...

Well, we lived through my father's death.

We grew up together.

We fought like hell when we were little, but then we became very close, and he was a wonderful uncle to my daughters.

Like my father, he had a heart of gold, and he was utterly devoted to me and to my mother.

So his loss, his death, was met with the same...

tragic sense as my father's because he was really well loved by people.

So it was like losing somebody who was a beautiful human being.

The value of presence, the value of being totally present in every given moment.

And I'll tell you why I say that, because I had to give a speech.

I was given an honorary doctorate at Juilliard, and of course I had to speak to the students.

And I thought, oh my God, how am I going to address a class full of performing artists who are going out in the world?

And I don't want to use cliches and use the word dreams or journey or hard work or any of those hackneyed phrases.

And so I gave it a lot of thought.

In the depths of me, what is the best advice?

And what I said to them, which is now what I will say to you is, show up.