Meryl Streep Quotes, Thoughts and images

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

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

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

We are the choices we have made.

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

The work will stand, no matter what.

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.

Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.

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

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Guard your good mood.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

Fear focuses the mind.

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

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.

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.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

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.

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.

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.

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

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.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.