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Meryl Streep Quotes About Work

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.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

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.

The work will stand, no matter what.

More Quotes by Meryl Streep

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

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.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

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.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

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.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

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