Quotes By Meryl Streep

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.

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

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

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

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.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

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.

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

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.

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

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

I'm all over the place.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.