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Acting Quotes by Meryl Streep
- Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
- Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
- I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
- Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
- I need to go where people are serious about acting.
- I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
- I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
- I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my…
- My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
- All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
- I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
- The work will stand, no matter what.
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