Meryl Streep Quotes

Be who you are, not who the world wants you to be.

Remember it's OK to be yourself.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I try so hard to be true to myself. I hope I can help other girls realize that they don't have to do things just because everyone else is doing them.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

They tell me what to wear, how to look, what I should say, how I should be. Until recently I had given into that pressure, I lost sight of who I was. I listened to opinions of people and I tried to change who I am because I thought others would accept me for it. And I realized I don't know how to be anything but myself.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Be who you are. If you spend all of your time worrying about how people view you, you will not be either faithful to yourself or effective in what you're trying to do.

Accept your own and be yourself!

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

The biggest mistake a woman can make is not to be herself in public or private.

I'm not interested in saying what people should and shouldn't do. It depends on how people feel about themselves. I suppose personally if you do anything out of fear or to mask who you are, then that's a bit scary. You've got to work with what you got.

The best advice I've ever got is to be yourself. Stay true to who you are and what you stand for and you'll go far in life.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

You change the world by being yourself.

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.