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