Meryl Streep Quotes
40 quotations 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. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. | ![]() |
![]() | The work will stand, no matter what. | ![]() |
![]() | The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. | ![]() |
![]() | Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. | ![]() |
![]() | Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. | ![]() |
![]() | My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | Instant gratification is not soon enough. | ![]() |
![]() | If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. | ![]() |
![]() | I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older. | ![]() |
![]() | I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | I'm all over the place. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | I want to feel my life while I'm in it. | ![]() |
![]() | I think your self emerges more clearly over time. | ![]() |
![]() | 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 have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | 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 get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. | ![]() |
![]() | I can't stand most things that I see. | ![]() |
![]() | I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. | ![]() |
![]() | For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. | ![]() |
![]() | 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. | ![]() |
![]() | All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. | ![]() |
![]() | All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. | ![]() |