Meryl Streep Quotes
I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot... view
By: Meryl Streep
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men... view
By: Meryl Streep
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible... view
By: Meryl Streep
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that... view
By: Meryl Streep
My family really does come first. It always did and always will... view
By: Meryl Streep
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials... view
By: Meryl Streep
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there... view
By: Meryl Streep
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician... view
By: Meryl Streep
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead... view
By: Meryl Streep
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you... view
By: Meryl Streep
Integrate 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... view
By: Meryl Streep
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes... view
By: Meryl Streep
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try... view
By: Meryl Streep
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed... view
By: Meryl Streep
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older... view
By: Meryl Streep
Instant gratification is not soon enough... view
By: Meryl Streep
The work is the most fun.. view
By: Meryl Streep
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before... view
By: Meryl Streep
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband.. view
By: Meryl Streep
You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing... view
By: Meryl Streep
We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8... view
By: Meryl Streep
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation... view
By: Meryl Streep
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become... view
By: Meryl Streep
The work will stand, no matter what... view
By: Meryl Streep
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person... view
By: Meryl Streep
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process... view
By: Meryl Streep
I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s... view
By: Meryl Streep
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter... view
By: Meryl Streep
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy... view
By: Meryl Streep
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me... view
By: Meryl Streep
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference... view
By: Meryl Streep
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material... view
By: Meryl Streep
Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children... view
By: Meryl Streep
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me... view
By: Meryl Streep
I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all... view
By: Meryl Streep
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception... view
By: Meryl Streep
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time... view
By: Meryl Streep
For me, clothes are kind of character.. view
By: Meryl Streep
I can't stand most things that I see... view
By: Meryl Streep
Everything we say signifies.. view
By: Meryl Streep
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done... view
By: Meryl Streep
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me... view
By: Meryl Streep
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