Meryl Streep

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

— Meryl Streep

Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you…

— Meryl Streep

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize that each day…

— Meryl Streep

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in…

— Meryl Streep

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh,…

— Meryl Streep

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

— Meryl Streep

When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?'…

— Meryl Streep

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to…

— Meryl Streep

I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up…

— Meryl Streep

And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me,…

— Meryl Streep

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't…

— Meryl Streep

First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out…

— Meryl Streep

You're perfectly balanced because then you effervesce seemingly effortlessly. And it's a thing a person can't manufacture. You either have that or…

— Meryl Streep

What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the…

— Meryl Streep

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work…

— Meryl Streep

When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that…

— Meryl Streep

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

— Meryl Streep

She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know -…

— 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

~When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready…

— Meryl Streep

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're…

— Meryl Streep

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that…

— Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

— Meryl Streep

I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by…

— Meryl Streep

Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.

— Meryl Streep

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

— Meryl Streep

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they…

— Meryl Streep

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

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways…

— Meryl Streep

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.

— Meryl Streep

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

— Meryl Streep

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings…

— Meryl Streep

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a…

— Meryl Streep

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

— Meryl Streep

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness…

— Meryl Streep

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep…

— Meryl Streep

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to…

— Meryl Streep

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

— 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…

— Meryl Streep