Meryl Streep Quotes

You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.

I think my body language and how I carry myself speaks for me as a person.

your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.

Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.

Cabel gives her a quizzical look. "I am totally not getting enough attention here.

The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us.

You know me, but you don't know me. I give you what I want to give you. I relate to villains like that - but I'm not out to destroy the world.

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

I do, however, have tape over my eyepiece as well. What I think my peace is saying isn't, "Oh I have something to hide. I don't want you to look," it's more saying, "No thank you. I prefer you not look. I'm not giving you permission."

I like a world where each of us has the tools to be able to make able to make our own decisions.

If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

If a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.

I was the one who was always scowling, downcast. I tried to make sure I looked like that when I was getting my picture taken.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds.

Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.