I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know. Meryl Streep More Quotes by Meryl Streep More Quotes From Meryl Streep There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever. Meryl Streep realizing careers directors Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand. Meryl Streep girl jobs men You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters. Meryl Streep winning character men I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back. Meryl Streep process might giving If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now. Meryl Streep middle-east car two Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite thing you've ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn't feel the story through her body. Meryl Streep personality men years But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing. Meryl Streep feelings song school She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important. Meryl Streep important artist mean It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking. Meryl Streep different fun people There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today. Meryl Streep overrated thinking 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 make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath. Meryl Streep bonus yeah appreciate Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most important thing, is that she win the argument, and there is nothing that stands in the way of that train, you know. But Julia's just alive in front of you. That's part of why people loved her. They lived it with her. They breathed it with her. And the mistakes were all part of it. Meryl Streep winning mistake children What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the protagonist. I feel what that guy is feeling. You know, if it's Tom Cruise leaping over a building - I want to make it, you know? And I'm going to - yes, I made it. And yeah, so I get that. Meryl Streep guy feelings mean We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in. Meryl Streep girl challenges thinking I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it. Meryl Streep girl character boys I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like. Meryl Streep delusion sound knows My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply. Meryl Streep mother joy rooms I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband. Meryl Streep grumpy always-happy husband People have to make their own decisions about their lives. Meryl Streep decision people Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. Meryl Streep barns knows home
