Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Meryl Streep quotes, Meryl Streep sayings, and Meryl Streep proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials._Meryl Streep
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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.Meryl Streep
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The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.Meryl Streep
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How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.Meryl Streep
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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.Meryl Streep
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.Meryl Streep
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.Meryl Streep
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All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.Meryl Streep
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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.Meryl Streep
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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
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.Meryl Streep
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There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.Meryl Streep
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The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.Meryl Streep
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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.Meryl Streep
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.Meryl Streep
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.Meryl Streep
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Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.Meryl Streep
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You could make a case that, along with the technological revolution, the most provocative upending destabilizing thrilling change in the course of human history is that we’re finally in it. … We're here now, women are in the world, and we will not be bullied.Meryl Streep
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It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.Meryl Streep
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I don't know what they have done to pot in the last thirty years, but it rocks! Meryl Streep
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.Meryl Streep
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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.Meryl Streep
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The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.Meryl Streep
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Being a role model...is equal parts being who you actually are and what people hope you will beMeryl Streep
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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.Meryl Streep
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I had three children and that's a lot like making a movie. There are a lot of the same worries. Will it have legs? Will it go wide? How will it do domestically and what if it goes foreign? Meryl Streep
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Acting is simply my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time. Meryl Streep
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What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.Meryl Streep
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The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.Meryl Streep
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You're leaving college now, and going out into real life. And you have to realize that real life is not like college. Real life is like high school.Meryl Streep