Top 10 Best Meryl Streep Quotes about acting

Meryl Streep is an extremely smart, stylish and lovely woman, a loving wife and mother of many children, and also a brilliant actress. From 1977 until today, Meryl Streep continues to captivate us with her carefully selected screen images that are so different from each other. And yet they manage to touch us and evoke emotions we never knew existed. We know her splendid incarnations, both in the images of ordinary women, subject to love, and in the images of the ladies who rule the world of politics and fashion, such as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” and Miranda Priestley in “The Devil Wears Prada“.

Throughout her career, she has won 171 awards (including three Oscars) and 279 nominations. We define Meryl as one of the personalities from whom everyone can learn something valuable about life. We share with you some interesting quotes from Meryl Streep about acting.

• Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time.
• I say to myself, ‘I don’t know how to act – and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?’ … Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness – your raging insecurity.
• All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,…that’s the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn’t filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?
• 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.
• Empathy is at the heart of the actor’s art. I’ve thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it’s the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.
• The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it’s a completely random process.
• 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.
• The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it’ll pay me back with interest. At least I’ll be interested, even if nobody else is.
• 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.
• Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.