“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
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
– 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 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
“The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.”
– 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
“Expensive clothes are a waste of money.”
– Meryl Streep
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
– 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
“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
“It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.”
– Meryl Streep
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
– 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
“All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.”
– Meryl Streep
“The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.”
– 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
“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
“America doesn’t reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.”
– Meryl Streep