Character Quotes by 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

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

— Meryl Streep

I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll…

— Meryl Streep

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

— Meryl Streep

For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.

— Meryl Streep

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

— 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

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse…

— Meryl Streep

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there…

— Meryl Streep

I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I…

— Meryl Streep

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how…

— Meryl Streep

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical…

— Meryl Streep

You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you…

— Meryl Streep

And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me,…

— Meryl Streep

How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of…

— Meryl Streep

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best…

— Meryl Streep