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Meryl Streep
American
Actress
About the author
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,
American
Actress
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#People
#Men
#Obsession
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Job
#Emotion
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Feeling
#May
#Voice
My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Will
#Family
#First
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Effect
#Motherhood
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#People
#Children
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Children
#Bizarre
#Health
#Manager
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Earth
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#People
#Advice
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.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Life
#Work
#Heart
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Personality
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Character
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Being
#Reason
#Movies
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Fact
Instant gratification is not soon enough.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Work
#Fun
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
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.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Husband
You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
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.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Old
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Road
#Negotiation
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Business
The work will stand, no matter what.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Work
#Will
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,
American
Actress
#Time
#Work
#Business
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Actor
I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Being
#Mother
#Pets
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Power
#Empathy
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Children
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.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#People
#Difference
#Desire
#Compassion
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Children
#World
#Decision
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,
American
Actress
#Children
#Imagination
#Mother
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,
American
Actress
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Public
#First
#Perception
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Time
#Home
For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Character
#Fashion
#Clothes
I can't stand most things that I see.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
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.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Time
#Kids
#World
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#World
#Favorite
#Actors
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#People
#Day
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Life
#People
#Day
#Age
#America
#Reward
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Today
#Faith
#Actor
#Blind
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Being
I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Acting
#People
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Earth
#Space
Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Money
#Clothes
#Waste
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Work
#Months
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Attention
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Want
#Life
I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Time
#Self
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.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Work
#Pain
#Feelings
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,
American
Actress
#Work
#Concern
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,
American
Actress
#Home
#Rest
#Fashion
#Clothes
#Care
#Existence
I need to go where people are serious about acting.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Acting
#People
I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Life
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Kids
#People
#Career
#Movies
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,
American
Actress
#Life
#Love
#Work
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.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#People
#Actors
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,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Children
#Years
#Night
#School
#Weekend
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.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress
#Time
#Life
#Friends
#Movies
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,
American
Actress
#Character
#Beauty
#Confidence
I'm all over the place.
Meryl Streep,
American
Actress