Inspirational Meryl Streep Quotes
“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
“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
“Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.”-Meryl Streep
“What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.”-Meryl Streep
“You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”-Meryl Streep
“I’m all over the place.”-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
“The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.”-Meryl Streep
“I’m really interested in the collaborative thing. It’s what makes it scary because you never know what it’s going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you’re completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It’s like this mutual delusion.”-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 fun of living.”-Meryl Streep
30 Famous Remarkable Meryl Streep Quotes
“I don’t know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I’ve played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we’re all – there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we’re all from Africa originally.”-Meryl Streep
“What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.”-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
“I think your self emerges more clearly over time.”-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
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”-Meryl Streep
“My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.”-Meryl Streep
“It’s a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can’t. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I’d just stay home and think about what I’m having for supper.”-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
15 Meryl Streep Quotes That Will Inspire You
“For me, clothes are kind of character; I don’t follow fashion or understand trends.”-Meryl Streep
“I have a very good life – I’m lucky enough not to be deprived.”-Meryl Streep
“Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don’t think it really changes.”-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
“It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.”-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
“You can’t strategize falling in love, can you? People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn’t work because you can’t predict these things. You fall in love with serially.”-Meryl Streep
“If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won’t even try.”-Meryl Streep
“Some people are filled with compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don’t think anything’s going to make a difference.”-Meryl Streep
“All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.”-Meryl Streep
“I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.”-Meryl Streep
“People say When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.”-Meryl Streep
Top 10 Motivational Meryl Streep Quotes
“All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.”-Meryl Streep
“The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it’s a completely random process.”-Meryl Streep
“I didn’t really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. My dad got sick, and we couldn’t afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.”-Meryl Streep
“I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it’s easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.”-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
“The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.”-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
“Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I’ve seen him in almost everything he’s done.”-Meryl Streep
“You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.”-Meryl Streep
