Apr 18, 2010 00:42
Friends Only
"I look for the thing that I got it from in the beginning. Because that's the thing that intoxicates me. It's what you get when you come upon a phrase in a poem that just goes through you. How to describe that is really hard. It's some recognition of the truth of life in that phrase or image or in that encounter. You feel it in pivotal moments of your life; when someones is born, when you fall in love, when someone dies, when someone tells a great joke and you haven't laughed all week and you just howl. The top flies off of your head. That's what you look for. And that's what happens in acting all the time in moments. Surrounding that is a lot of police work, a lot of walking and drudgery, but every once in a while, your adrenaline goes up. That's the addictive thing."
- Meryl Streep.