I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Quote by Meryl Streep
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I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
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Meryl Streep Quotes
- Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
- The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
- The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
- 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.
- The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
- I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
- Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
- Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
- I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
- Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
- I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.