You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.
Meryl StreepI really think there's a difference between how men critics see things than how women tend to. And I don't want to make that - it's not a generality and I don't want to say that, but I just feel - I know I do the same thing. There are certain things that I just am not that interested in. Certain kinds of films - I just don't enter them.
Meryl StreepThis 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.
Meryl StreepIntegrate 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. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
Meryl Streep