“That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.” – Streep Quotes
56 Meryl Streep Quotes
- “The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”
2. “I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.”
3. “You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.”
4. “We are the choices we have made.”
5. “Fear focuses the mind.”
6. “This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.”
7. “You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”
8. “Instant gratification is not soon enough.”
9. “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.”
10. “What makes you different or weird—that’s your strength.”
Meryl Streep Quotes About Life
11. “The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.”
12. “You have to embrace getting older.”
13. “The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.”
14. “The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.”
15. “Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men.”
16. “Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”
17. “I didn’t have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.”
18. “I want to feel my life while I’m in it.”
19. “Pretending is a very valuable life skill.”
20. “That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.”
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21. “I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.”
22. “It’s amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.”
23. “You can’t suppress the things that make us human. It’s pointless to try.”
24. “I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.”
25. “Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.”
26. “This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.”
27. “Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.”
28. “True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.”
29. “Being an actor lets me be a million different things.”
30. “Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time”
31. “Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.”
32. “Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn’t be happy if I were home all the time.”
33. “There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.”
Meryl Streep Inspirational Quotes
34. “I like who I am now. Other people may not. I’m comfortable. I feel freer now. I don’t want growing older to matter to me.”
35. “It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.”
36. “I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.”
37. “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.”
38. “I always feel like I can’t do it, that I can’t go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.”
39. “There’s no road map on how to raise a family: it’s always an enormous negotiation.”
40. “I think your self emerges more clearly over time.”
41. “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.”
42. “I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.”
43. “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.”
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44. “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.
45. “Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don’t think it really changes.”
46. “People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.”
47. “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.”
48. “My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.”
49. “It’s so much easier to be happy. It’s so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you’re missing, or what it is that you’re imagining you’re missing. It is so much more peaceful.”
50. “If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.”
51. “I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.”
52. “Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I’m putting out in the world, is because of my children.”
53. “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.”
54. 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?’
55. “I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.”
56. “I’m really interested in the collaborative thing. It’s what makes it scary because you never know what it’s going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you’re completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It’s like this mutual delusion.”
Additional Read: Meryl Streep is an American actress. Streep is frequently referred to as “the best actress of her generation” and is particularly renowned for her adaptability to accents and versatility. Over the course of her career, which has spanned more than four decades, she has received numerous honors, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations (winning three), and a record 32 Golden Globe Award nominations (winning eight).
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