Acting Quotes by Meryl Streep

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

— Meryl Streep

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

— 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

Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you…

— Meryl Streep

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in…

— Meryl Streep

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it…

— 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 would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so…

— 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

While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that…

— Meryl Streep

Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even…

— 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,…

— Meryl Streep

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of…

— Meryl Streep

The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that…

— Meryl Streep

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work…

— Meryl Streep

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of…

— Meryl Streep

One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means…

— Meryl Streep