Top 297 Quotes & Sayings by Meryl Streep
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Last updated on September 9, 2024.
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.
Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.
Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.
I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.
I can't stand most things that I see.
Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
I'm all over the place.
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Instant gratification is not soon enough.
You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.
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.
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
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'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.
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
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.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.
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.
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.
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.
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.
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.
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.
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.
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.
I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.
I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.
My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
The work will stand, no matter what.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.
I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
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