Meryl Streep

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is an imagined possibility.

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

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really there is no normal. There's only change, and resistance to it, and then more change.

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.

That choice, between the devil and the dream, comes up every day in different little disguises. I'm sure it comes up in every field of endeavor and every life.

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.

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.

That choice, between the devil and the dream, comes up every day in different little disguises.

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.