Meryl Streep Art Quotations

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

She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.

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

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.

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.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

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

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

I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited...all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."

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

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

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?

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

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.

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 you're low. We need each other in that way.

I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out.