Quotes by Meryl Streep

About Meryl Streep:

Mary Louise Streep is an American actress. A three-time Academy Award winner, she is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actors of all time. Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville in 1971, and went on to receive a 1976 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her screen debut in the 1977 television film The Deadliest Season, and made her film debut later that same year in Julia. In 1978, she won an Emmy Award for her role in the miniseries Holocaust, and received her first Academy Award nomination for The Deer Hunter. Nominated for 19 Academy Awards in total, Streep has more nominations than any other actor or actress in history, winning Best Supporting Actress for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), and Best Actress for Sophie's Choice (1982) and for The Iron Lady (2011).
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America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Meryl Streep

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Meryl Streep

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Meryl Streep

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

Meryl Streep

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

Meryl Streep

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

Meryl Streep

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

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

Meryl Streep

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

Meryl Streep

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Meryl Streep

I can't stand most things that I see.

Meryl Streep

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Meryl Streep

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Meryl Streep

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

Meryl Streep

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

Meryl Streep

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

Meryl Streep

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

Meryl Streep

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

Meryl Streep

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

Meryl Streep

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

Meryl Streep

Author Bio

  • NameMeryl Streep
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornJune 22, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actress; Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress; National Medal Of Arts; Donostia Award; Academy Award For Best Actress