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 More Quotes by Meryl Streep More Quotes From Meryl Streep The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. Meryl Streep happiness-and-success vivid way What makes you different or weird, that's your strength. Meryl Streep stay-strong success life I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice. Meryl Streep voice mother thinking Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food! Meryl Streep simple-love simple sex The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself. Meryl Streep i-dont-care being-yourself inspirational The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. Meryl Streep fundraising compassion inspirational That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work. Meryl Streep simple secret heart It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it. Meryl Streep demand ifs Pretending is a very valuable life skill. Meryl Streep pretending valuable skills Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head. Meryl Streep change motivational positive Fear focuses the mind. Meryl Streep mind I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world. Meryl Streep role-models light thinking As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else. Meryl Streep easier who-you-are want For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK. Meryl Streep girl hate men True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us. Meryl Streep true-freedom understanding choices One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you. Meryl Streep shoes keys mean I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. Meryl Streep opposites believe people We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way. Meryl Streep inspiration art needs You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift. Meryl Streep getting-older each-day people I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that. Meryl Streep fashion hair thinking
