I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons. — 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
What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I really think there's a difference between how men critics see things than how women tend to. And I don't want to… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an… — 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
Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite… — 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
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. I'm wearing very fancy clothes today. It's Valentino. But the film… — 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
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