Meryl Streep

Guard your good mood.

— Meryl Streep

We are the choices we have made.

— Meryl Streep

You have to embrace getting older

— Meryl Streep

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

— Meryl Streep

I can't stand most things that I see.

— Meryl Streep

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

— Meryl Streep

The work will stand, no matter what.

— Meryl Streep

I'm all over the place.

— Meryl Streep

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

— Meryl Streep

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

— Meryl Streep

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

— Meryl Streep

Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.

— Meryl Streep

I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.

— Meryl Streep

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

— Meryl Streep

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.

— Meryl Streep

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

— Meryl Streep

If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

— Meryl Streep

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it…

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself…

— Meryl Streep

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

— Meryl Streep

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

— Meryl Streep

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a…

— Meryl Streep

Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments,…

— Meryl Streep

Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of…

— Meryl Streep

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how…

— Meryl Streep

Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic…

— Meryl Streep

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you…

— Meryl Streep

To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly'…

— Meryl Streep

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very…

— Meryl Streep

I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. I'm wearing very fancy clothes today. It's Valentino. But the film…

— Meryl Streep

So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected…

— Meryl Streep

You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited…

— Meryl Streep

If you raise children, you forget what age they are. I mean you don't literally forget, but you treat a 13-year-old like…

— Meryl Streep

How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of…

— Meryl Streep

Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's…

— Meryl Streep

I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort…

— Meryl Streep

For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that,…

— Meryl Streep