I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year… — 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
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
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
When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most… — 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
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
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
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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