Quotes By Meryl Streep

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

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 interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

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.

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.

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

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 don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

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

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

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

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.

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

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.

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.

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.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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

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.

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

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

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.