Meryl Streep Quotes

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

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

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.

Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

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.

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

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

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.

It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.

Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

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

Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.

It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

You have to embrace getting older.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

I can't stand most things that I see.

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

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

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

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

I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

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

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.

I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.