Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?'… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly'… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
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… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
