It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a… — 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
Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were… — 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
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
