Quotes By 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.

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'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

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

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

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

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

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

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

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

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

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

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

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.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

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

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

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

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.

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.

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.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

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