If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. — 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 think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly'… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means… — 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
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 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
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a… — 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'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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model.… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. — 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 just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a… — 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
I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career… — 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
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![“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 ["Devil Wears Prada"] did not make me change my style. If anything, it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and…” quote by Meryl Streep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/50c/meryl-streep-1078_appreciate_i-feel-much-more-comfortable-dressed-in_2663524.jpg)
![“People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?” quote by Meryl Streep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a12/meryl-streep-1078_expectations_people-will-say-to-me-you-ve-played-so-m_359074.jpg)
