Quotes By 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.

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

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 need to go where people are serious about acting.

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

The work will stand, no matter what.

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

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

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

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 can't stand most things that I see.

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

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

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

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