Quotes By Meryl Streep

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

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

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

I'm all over the place.

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

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.

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

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.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

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

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

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

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

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

The work will stand, no matter what.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

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