There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. Meryl Streep More Quotes by Meryl Streep More Quotes From Meryl Streep Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too. Meryl Streep daughterlightlife I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. Meryl Streep fashiontakenhome You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school. Meryl Streep realcollegeschool It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug. Meryl Streep imaginedrugpain I really think there's a difference between how men critics see things than how women tend to. And I don't want to make that - it's not a generality and I don't want to say that, but I just feel - I know I do the same thing. There are certain things that I just am not that interested in. Certain kinds of films - I just don't enter them. Meryl Streep differencesmenthinking I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do. Meryl Streep mathteacherschool I'm all over the place. Meryl Streep I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think. Meryl Streep togetherworldthinking Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first. Meryl Streep rolesplayfirsts 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. Meryl Streep essencemotivationalinspirational How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them. Meryl Streep voicecharacterpeople The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize. Meryl Streep abilitygivenmen And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way. Meryl Streep playrunningmen Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting. Meryl Streep singingactingfeelings If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. Meryl Streep screenstryingcharacter That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction. Meryl Streep rolesvoicethinking I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us. Meryl Streep empathypassionheart Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it. Meryl Streep lazydoewriting I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long. Meryl Streep femalecharacterlong Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art. Meryl Streep empathyactingart
