#or

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

— Meryl Streep

#character #confident #even #i #i am

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

— Meryl Streep

#america #day-to-day #day-to-day life #either #life

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. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#ass #because #costume #designers #feelings

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

— Meryl Streep

#enormous #family #how #map #negotiation

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

— Meryl Streep

#any #blind #blind faith #faith #say

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

— Meryl Streep

#cooper #done #everything #favorite #him

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. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#huge #i #imagine #life #love

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

— Meryl Streep

#five #four #give #i #months

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. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#been #business #extremely #good #i

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

— Meryl Streep

#business #humbled #more #you