Quotes

“Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.” Meryl Streep

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

“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.” Meryl Streep

“The work will stand, no matter what.” Meryl Streep

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

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

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

“I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.” Meryl Streep

“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.” Meryl Streep

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

“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.” Meryl Streep

“I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.” Meryl Streep

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

“Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.” Meryl Streep

“The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.” 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. I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.” Meryl Streep

“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.” Meryl Streep

“There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.” Meryl Streep

“I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.” Meryl Streep

“I think your self emerges more clearly over time.” Meryl Streep

“I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.” Meryl Streep

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

“My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.” Meryl Streep

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

“You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.” Meryl Streep

“I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.” Dwayne Johnson

“I didn't have to win, and winning wasn't important to me. Being world champion wasn't important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.” Dwayne Johnson

“If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.” Dwayne Johnson

“Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'” Dwayne Johnson

“Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.” Dwayne Johnson