I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world…” quote by Meryl Streep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/034/meryl-streep-1078_cases_how-do-i-do-that-preparation-for-film-ju_2076783.jpg)
