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 Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow. Meryl Streep tomorrow choices decision Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything. Meryl Streep husband mother children Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Meryl Streep motivation inspiration believe Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time. Meryl Streep impact creativity kids The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world. Meryl Streep fighting feels world People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women? Meryl Streep strong-women expectations people I think your self emerges more clearly over time. Meryl Streep acting self thinking All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. Meryl Streep blind-belief acting faith 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. Meryl Streep acting skills play 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 work. Meryl Streep motivational inspirational thinking Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars. Meryl Streep scar stars littles You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. Meryl Streep badass husband death I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life. Meryl Streep husband joy children What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it. Meryl Streep indifference tolerance brutality I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life. Meryl Streep play giving character Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia. Meryl Streep survival skills men I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit. Meryl Streep sick miracle people 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 if nobody else is. Meryl Streep challenging-work funny-graduation challenges Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time Meryl Streep acting fun way You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. Meryl Streep success inspiring graduation
