Meryl Streep Quotes on Movies (15 Quotes)

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

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

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

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.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

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.

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

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.

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

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.