You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or… — 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
That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most… — 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
![“That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.” quote by Meryl Streep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a78/meryl-streep-1078_conviction_that-s-my-way-in-the-very-beginning-how_2433414.jpg)
