Skip to content
Meryl Streep
Quotes by Meryl Streep
Quotes by Meryl Streep
“Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”
Meryl Streep
“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
“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
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
Meryl Streep
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
Meryl Streep
“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
“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
“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
“I can't stand most things that I see.”
Meryl Streep
“Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.”
Meryl Streep
“For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.”
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
“Expensive clothes are a waste of money.”
Meryl Streep
“You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”
Meryl Streep
“It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.”
Meryl Streep
“I want to feel my life while I'm in it.”
Meryl Streep
“Instant gratification is not soon enough.”
Meryl Streep
“My family really does come first. It always did and always will.”
Meryl Streep
“All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.”
Meryl Streep
“I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.”
Meryl Streep
“I need to go where people are serious about acting.”
Meryl Streep
“If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.”
Meryl Streep
“There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.”
Meryl Streep
“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
“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
“The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.”
Meryl Streep
“People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.”
Meryl Streep
“The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.”
Meryl Streep
“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
“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
