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).
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

Meryl Streep

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

Meryl Streep

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Meryl Streep

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

Meryl Streep

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Meryl Streep

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Meryl Streep

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Meryl Streep

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

Meryl Streep

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

Meryl Streep

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Meryl Streep

Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

Meryl Streep

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

Meryl Streep

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Meryl Streep

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Meryl Streep

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

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

Meryl Streep

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

Meryl Streep

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Meryl Streep

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

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