Quotes of Meryl Streep - somelinesforyou

“ Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know. ”

- 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

“ While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ The formula of happiness and success is just being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ I didn’t have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ One woman will brag about her children, while another complains about hers; they could probably swap children without swapping tunes. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ The work will stand, no matter what. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ I'm curious about people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Expensive clothes are a waste of money. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Expensive clothes are a waste of money. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Expensive clothes are a waste of money. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Expensive clothes are a waste of money. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. ”

- Meryl Streep

“ Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. ”

- Meryl Streep
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