- Inspirational Quotes of Meryl Streep
- Meryl Streep Quotes about Life
- Quotes on Success by Meryl Streep
- Meryl Streep Family Quotes
- Famous Quotes of Meryl Streep
- Meryl Streep Opportunity Quotes
Inspirational Quotes of Meryl Streep
Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
Meryl Streep
Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
Meryl Streep
I’m curious about other people. That’s the essence of my acting. I’m interested in what it would be like to be you.
Meryl Streep
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
Meryl Streep
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep Quotes about Life
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
I want to feel my life while I’m in it.
Meryl Streep
Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh’s short, promising life, she was India’s daughter. Tonight she’s our daughter too.
Meryl Streep
What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.
Meryl Streep
Quotes on Success by Meryl Streep
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
Meryl Streep
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I’m not sure that I’m that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
Meryl Streep
You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep Family Quotes
First I’m going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you’ve given me.
Meryl Streep
I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.
Meryl Streep
I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
Meryl Streep
Life is all about making choices and I’m very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I’ve also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.
Meryl Streep
The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.
Meryl Streep
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.
Meryl Streep
Famous Quotes of Meryl Streep
Acting has to reach everybody on some level – it’s a communication of feeling – but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.
Meryl Streep
Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time
Meryl Streep
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Meryl Streep
America doesn’t reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
Meryl Streep
Empathy is at the heart of the actor’s art.
Meryl Streep
Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
Meryl Streep
Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
Meryl Streep
I don’t really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.
Meryl Streep
I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we’re giving to the world, what we’re withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.
Meryl Streep
I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.
Meryl Streep
I need to go where people are serious about acting.
Meryl Streep
I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.
Meryl Streep
I say to myself, ‘I don’t know how to act – and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?’ … Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness – your raging insecurity.
Meryl Streep
I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
Meryl Streep
I’m a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
Meryl Streep
Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they’re doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they’re doing. There is a craft.
Meryl Streep
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I’m superstitious enough to believe that.
Meryl Streep
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
Meryl Streep
No one has ever asked an actor, ‘You’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.
Meryl Streep
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
Meryl Streep
Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you’re acting.
Meryl Streep
The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That’s how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.
Meryl Streep
The work will stand, no matter what.
Meryl Streep
We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.
Meryl Streep
When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, ‘Oh no. Come on… Her, again?’ You know. But, whatever.
Meryl Streep
You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent… Or that you’re boring and they’re going to find out that you don’t know what you’re doing.
Meryl Streep
Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep Opportunity Quotes
A man has always been seen as someone who works hard and has a full-time occupation. I think women should have the same opportunity and not have any stigma attached to them if they choose to pursue their careers.
Meryl Streep
I have a lot of people to thank and I’m going to be one of those people that tries to mention a lot of names, because I know just two seconds ago my mother and father went completely berserk and I’d like to give some other mothers and fathers that same opportunity.
Meryl Streep
I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I’ve been really, really lucky. I’m aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I’ve worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I’m really grateful.
Meryl Streep