Meryl Streep Quotes

The best thing about acting is when you’re playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That’s when you know you’ve been succeeded at what you’ve worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.
MERYL STREEP

Acting Character Moment
Fear focuses the mind.
MERYL STREEP

Fear Focus Mind
I didn’t go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
MERYL STREEP

Math School Teacher
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
MERYL STREEP

Happiness Success Way
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
MERYL STREEP

Fun Most Seem Work
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won’t even try.
MERYL STREEP

Character Screen Try
I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that ‘drug’ and go along with that.
MERYL STREEP

Fashion Hair Think
You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you’ve lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.
MERYL STREEP

Day Each Get Older People
The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
MERYL STREEP

Idea People Sometimes
Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.
MERYL STREEP

Difficult Jumpsuit Men
Empathy is at the heart of the actor’s art.
MERYL STREEP

Acting Art Empathy
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

Model People Role Success
That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
MERYL STREEP

Heart Secret Simple
What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.
MERYL STREEP

Life Stay Strong Success
All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,…that’s the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn’t filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?
MERYL STREEP

Heart Inspiration Think
People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?
MERYL STREEP

Expectation People Strong Women
Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple – love, sex and food!
MERYL STREEP

Food Love Sex Simple

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