Meryl Streep Quotes
"Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Men, People, Obsession)
"My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Emotion, Job)
"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Feeling, May, Voice)
"My family really does come first. It always did and always will."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Family, First, Will)
"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Effect, Motherhood)
"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: People, Children)
"It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Health, Manager, Bizarre, Children)
"It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Earth)
"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: People, Advice)
"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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Work, Life, Heart)
"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Personality)
"If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Character)
"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Movies, Being, Reason)
"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Fact)
"Instant gratification is not soon enough."
- Meryl Streep
"The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Work, Fun)
"You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before."
- Meryl Streep
"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Husband)
"You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing."
- 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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Old)
"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Negotiation, Road)
"The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Business)
"The work will stand, no matter what."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Work, Will)
"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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Business, Time, Work)
"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Actor)
"I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s."
- Meryl Streep
"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Mother, Being, Pets)
"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Power, Empathy)
"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Children)
"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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: People, Compassion, Desire, Difference)
"There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material."
- 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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Decision, Children, World)
"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Imagination, Mother, Children)
"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."
- Meryl Streep
"How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Perception, First, Public)
"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Home, Time)
"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Character, Clothes, Fashion)
"I can't stand most things that I see."
- Meryl Streep
"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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Time, Kids, World)
"Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Actors, Favorite, World)
"Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: People, Day)
"America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Life, Age, People, America, Day, Reward)
"All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Faith, Actor, Blind, Today)
"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Acting, Being)
"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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: People, Acting)
"There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Earth, Space)
"Expensive clothes are a waste of money."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Money, Clothes, Waste)
"I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Work, Acting, Months)
"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Attention)
"I want to feel my life while I'm in it."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Life, Want)
"I think your self emerges more clearly over time."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Time, Self)
"I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Work, Feelings, Pain)
"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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Work, Concern)
"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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Home, Care, Clothes, Existence, Fashion, Rest)
"I need to go where people are serious about acting."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: People, Acting)
"I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Life)
"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Movies, Life, People, Career, Kids)
"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Love, Work, Life)
"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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: People, Actors)
"I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts."
- Meryl Streep
"I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Children, Night, School, Weekend, Years)
"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."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Life, Time, Movies, Friends)
"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: Beauty, Character, Confidence)
"I'm all over the place."
- Meryl Streep