The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 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
She [ Anne Hathaway] is just a delicious talent. I think she can delight us for years and years in lots and… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,...that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled… — 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
When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — 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
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a… — 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
They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
A man has always been seen as someone who works hard and has a full-time occupation. I think women should have the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that… — 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… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when… — 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
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
![“She [ Anne Hathaway] is just a delicious talent. I think she can delight us for years and years in lots and lots of different things.Her own personality is so appealing and fresh and open and warm. I think she can have a unique career.” quote by Meryl Streep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a6/meryl-streep-1078_careers_she-anne-hathaway-is-just-a-delicious-ta_369172.jpg)
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![“That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.” quote by Meryl Streep](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a78/meryl-streep-1078_conviction_that-s-my-way-in-the-very-beginning-how_2433414.jpg)
