Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
Meryl StreepEveryone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.
Meryl StreepBut for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.
Meryl StreepI think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
Meryl Streep