Looks Quotes by Meryl Streep

11 Looks quotes by Meryl Streep

Streep’s seasoned perspective on the power of visual impression is distilled into these eleven thoughtful lines. A concise, reflective pause for anyone interested in how looks influence identity.

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I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they…

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I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh,…

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Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked…

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We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.

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Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is…

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I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?'…

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I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a…

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I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career…

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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…

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For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that,…

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I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort…

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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

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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.…

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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…

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

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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

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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…

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People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

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