~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 Copy Share Image
When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?'… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know -… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?'… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I have a lot of people to thank and I'm going to be one of those people that tries to mention a… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I really think there's a difference between how men critics see things than how women tend to. And I don't want to… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I… — Meryl Streep Copy Share
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. — Meryl Streep Copy Share
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