Meryl Streep Quotes
Meryl Streep Quotes
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.
The work will stand, no matter what.
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.
I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
I need to go where people are serious about acting.
Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Oh don’t be ridiculous Andrea, everybody wants this. Everybody wants to be us.
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.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn’t want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
It’s so much easier to be happy. It’s so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you’re missing, or what it is that you’re imagining you’re missing.
By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.
We will stand on principle, or we will not stand at all.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
I have doubts! I have such doubts!
Is anybody supposed to smoke?
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Meryl Streep Quotes on Acting
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
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.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Short Meryl Streep Movies Quotes
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.
If no one’s in the kitchen, who’s to see?
Meryl Streep Quotes on Life
I want to feel my life while I’m in it.
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.
Tonight we light these candles to honour 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 Quotes on Motivational
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
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.
Inspirational Meryl Streep Quotes
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.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
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.
Short Meryl Streep Quotes About Children
I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I’m putting out in the world, is because of my children.
Short Meryl Streep out of Africa Quotes
Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.
He even took the gramophone on safari. Three rifles, supplies for a month, and Mozart.
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a colour that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Gong Hills look out for me?
The Formula of Happiness and Success Meryl Streep Quote
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
Short Meryl Streep Quotes on Love
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.
Service is the only thing that’s important about love. Everybody is worried about ‘losing yourself’ – all this narcissism. Duty. We can’t stand that idea now either… But duty might be a suit of armour you put on to fight for your love.
You can’t strategize falling in love, can you? It’s never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn’t work because you can’t predict these things. You fall in love serially.
Meryl Streep Quotes the Bridges of Madison County
And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.
Meryl Streep Quotes Devil Wears Prada
Oh no, you chose. You chose to get ahead. You want this life; those choices are necessary.
By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.
