Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
I need to go where people are serious about acting.
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.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
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.
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.
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
The work will stand, no matter what.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
Meryl Streep: