Meryl Streep Quotes (73 Quotes)

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.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

The work will stand, no matter what.

I can't stand most things that I see.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

loving women of a certain age in movies and in life.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

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.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

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.

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

This creation is not really like his show. It is an imagined last show, and so it's in the context of being taken over by a radio conglomerate, which is happening to a lot of radio shows at home.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

I'm all over the place.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

who is my hero of all time.

I feel really proud of the movie and I think its properly subversive and its very human. I think its properly subversive and very human. It relies on humor and music to communicate what's being lost...For me it was really great to locate something true about America, something that cuts across all levels of sophistication and humanity, about who we are as Americans, and that's why I loved being in it.

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.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

I love Chinese movies and don't get enough of them in the United States and that's why people hold film festivals to make others aware of films in other countries,

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else.