Meryl Streep Quotes About Acting
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Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time
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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.
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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.
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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.
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Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
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Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
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I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.
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I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
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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.
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I need to go where people are serious about acting.
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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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Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.
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The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.
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Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.
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I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
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All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
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Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
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While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
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The work will stand, no matter what.
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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.
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