Thinking Quotes by Meryl Streep

We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.

— Meryl Streep

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

— Meryl Streep

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

— Meryl Streep

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

— Meryl Streep

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

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

There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.

— Meryl Streep

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

— 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

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

She [ Anne Hathaway] is just a delicious talent. I think she can delight us for years and years in lots and…

— Meryl Streep

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

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are…

— Meryl Streep

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

I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when…

— Meryl Streep

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women…

— Meryl Streep

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

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

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

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

They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared…

— Meryl Streep

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

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than…

— 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 don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic…

— Meryl Streep

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is…

— Meryl Streep

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

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

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

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

I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a…

— Meryl Streep

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

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