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.
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.
By : Meryl Streep
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
By : Meryl Streep
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
By : Meryl Streep
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
By : Meryl Streep
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
By : Meryl Streep
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
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.
By : Meryl Streep
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
By : Meryl Streep
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
By : Meryl Streep
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
By : Meryl Streep
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
By : Meryl Streep
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband
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.
By : Meryl Streep
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
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.
By : Meryl Streep
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
By : Meryl Streep
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
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.
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.
By : Meryl Streep
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By : Meryl Streep
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
By : Meryl Streep