Top 100 Streep Quotes
#1. This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.
Taron Egerton
#2. Sony has canceled the big Seth Rogen movie, 'The Interview.' North Koreans hacked their email so Sony said, 'Now we can't show anybody the movie.' I'm disappointed. I think this is the wrong thing to do. And I hear in the film Meryl Streep is great as Kim Jong Un.
Conan O'Brien
#4. If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
Meryl Streep
#5. Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
Meryl Streep
#6. 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
#7. My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
Meryl Streep
#8. It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.
Meryl Streep
#9. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep
#10. I'll tell you how it happened. The phone rang. Paul, my agent, goes, 'Would you like to play Meryl Streep's?' I said, 'Yeeees! I'll do it, whatever it is.' He said, 'It's Mamma Mia!.' I said, 'Oh no, which character? The fat friend?
Julie Walters
#11. I definitely look up to Meryl Streep because she's been in so many amazing movies, and I just think that she's one of the greatest actresses out there. I also look up to Jennifer Lawrence, especially knowing her and knowing that she is so awesome and so nice.
Willow Shields
#12. 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
#13. I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.
Meryl Streep
#14. Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
Meryl Streep
#15. It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.
Meryl Streep
#16. I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.
Meryl Streep
#17. People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
Meryl Streep
#18. I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don't know if I'll live that long.
Meryl Streep
#19. I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
Meryl Streep
#20. I got to work with Dustin Hoffman on a film called 'Billy Bathgate.' I got to work with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bob Zemeckis on 'Death Becomes Her.' There are still a few actors out there that I would like to work with.
Bruce Willis
#21. Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.
Truman Capote
#22. There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.
Meryl Streep
#23. Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
Meryl Streep
#24. I was definitely very intimidated, but the instant Meryl Streep said 'Hi' to me, it all went away.
Lilla Crawford
#25. What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
Meryl Streep
#26. Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep
#27. I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep. I guess actors just never feel secure.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#28. We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you're low. We need each other in that way.
Meryl Streep
#29. My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.
Meryl Streep
#30. Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Meryl Streep
#31. It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
Meryl Streep
#32. 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
#33. That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.
Meryl Streep
#34. Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?
Brian Van Holt
#35. [ Working Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."
Anne Hathaway
#36. The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.
Meryl Streep
#37. I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.
Mili Avital
#38. I need to go where people are serious about acting.
Meryl Streep
#39. It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body
Meryl Streep
#40. Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.
Meryl Streep
#41. No one's too big for a compliment. A lot of times, people think with celebrities, 'Oh, she knows she's great in that!' Meryl Streep still likes a compliment. I guarantee you, it touches her heart.
Nikki Glaser
#42. 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
#43. Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
Meryl Streep
#44. How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
Meryl Streep
#46. I would love to share the screen with Meryl Streep, wouldn't we all? I would love to work with Spielberg and Scorsese; that would be lovely. I'm also a huge fan of Johnny Depp and the way he creates his characters, so that would be fun. I mean, any of the greats, really.
Grace Gealey
#47. In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.
Meryl Streep
#48. I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.
Meryl Streep
#49. I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
Meryl Streep
#50. You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school.
Meryl Streep
#51. Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
Meryl Streep
#52. The one person whom I would like to be is Meryl Streep. Even at her age, she sits alongside the younger heroines at the Oscars with her name in the nominee list, and others around her wonder whether they still stand a chance.
Rani Mukerji
#53. Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.
Meryl Streep
#54. Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it.
Meryl Streep
#55. First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me,
Meryl Streep
#56. There are some days when I, myself , think I'm overrated
Meryl Streep
#57. Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.
Meryl Streep
#58. My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
Meryl Streep
#59. My favourite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh, and Anna Magnani.
Penelope Cruz
#60. 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
#61. Being an actor lets me be a million different things.
Meryl Streep
#62. I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.
Megan Fox
#63. I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.
Cher
#64. In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.
Meryl Streep
#65. You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.
Alan Cumming
#66. I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.
Meryl Streep
#67. 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
#68. The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Max Irons
#69. I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
Meryl Streep
#70. I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.
Meryl Streep
#71. People will say to me, 'You've played so many strong women' and I'll say, 'Have you ever said to a man, 'You've played so many strong men?' No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can't we have that expectation about women?
Meryl Streep
#72. But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing.
Meryl Streep
#73. I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
Meryl Streep
#75. If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
Meryl Streep
#76. They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.
Meryl Streep
#77. Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.
Daphne Zuniga
#78. It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at what they do. That's how I feel about Meryl Streep. You watch her, and you can't help but notice all of that about her. She's so influential.
Agyness Deyn
#79. I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. "Devil Wears Prada" did not make me change my style. But it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and really put together that look. I mean, wow. It's amazing.
Meryl Streep
#80. I had an existential crisis at the Oscars, sitting next to Sean Penn and Meryl Streep, and being like, 'What am I doing here? I don't belong here'. I felt like it could all be taken away.
Amy Adams
#81. 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
#82. A man has always been seen as someone who works hard and has a full-time occupation. I think women should have the same opportunity and not have any stigma attached to them if they choose to pursue their careers.
Meryl Streep
#83. I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.
Meryl Streep
#84. I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.
Clemence Poesy
#85. You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.
Meryl Streep
#86. It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep
#87. I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
Paul McCartney
#88. Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.
Meryl Streep
#89. I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
Ed Begley Jr.
#90. There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
Meryl Streep
#92. Are there women in your world now that have given you those lessons in confidence? Oh absolutely. Meryl [Streep] does it all the time. I think she does it in a way that she doesn't even understand or think she's doing it.
Viola Davis
#93. I would be surprised if they gave Meryl Streep her third Oscar for a film as light as 'Julie and Julia,' although, of course, Katharine Hepburn's third Oscar came with a very light performance from her in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.'
Robert Osborne
#94. The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.
Meryl Streep
#95. For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.
Billy Eichner
#96. The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.
Meryl Streep
#97. Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.
Meryl Streep
#98. My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.
Wes Craven
#99. All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Meryl Streep
#100. I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.
Meryl Streep
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