Meryl Streep quotes

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

“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.”

— Meryl Streep

“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.”

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

“I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.”

— Meryl Streep

“I'm all over the place.”

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

“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.”

— Meryl Streep

“The work will stand, no matter what.”

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

“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.”

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

“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.”

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

“How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.”

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

“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.”

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

“I think your self emerges more clearly over time.”

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep