I was n’t deliberately silent. I did n’t know. I don’t tacitly approve of rape. I did n’t know. I don’t like young women being assaulted. I did n’t know this was happening. Meryl Streep More Quotes by Meryl Streep More Quotes From Meryl Streep I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it. Meryl Streep dreambelieveart Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul. Meryl Streep taughtactorssoul I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain. Meryl Streep made-up-storiespaincharacter The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments. Meryl Streep actingmomentscharacter My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world. Meryl Streep worryadvicehands 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 been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband. Meryl Streep husbandchoiceschildren I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited... all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you." Meryl Streep smartlove-youmen All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,...that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express? Meryl Streep inspirationheartthinking The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity. Meryl Streep insecurityactorskeys People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. Meryl Streep being-yourselfwantpeople We are the choices we have made. Meryl Streep choicesmade There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it. Meryl Streep going-for-itliberation Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. Meryl Streep attractive-thingssmartmen Being an actor lets me be a million different things. Meryl Streep let-meactorsdifferent So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it. Meryl Streep dadhomesong Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. Meryl Streep actingmotivationalinspirational So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence. Meryl Streep strugglefunthinking I need to go where people are serious about acting. Meryl Streep actingpeopleneeds Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other. Meryl Streep actingjobsinteresting Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work. Meryl Streep achievewantneeds
