Quotes By Meryl Streep

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

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.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

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

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

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

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

I can't stand most things that I see.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

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

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

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.