Top 100 Streep's Quotes
#1. Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?
Brian Van Holt
#2. Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.
Jeff Daniels
#3. Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like to be in - like Meryl Streep's, for instance.
Catherine Mary Stewart
#4. I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.
Heather Graham
#5. 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
#6. I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#7. I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.
Meryl Streep
#8. 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
#9. I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?
Meryl Streep
#10. I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us.
Meryl Streep
#11. Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.
Beth Behrs
#12. There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
Barry Humphries
#13. Meryl Streep is my favorite actor. She is so classy and a brilliant actress. Her performance in 'Sophie's Choice' just kills me.
Brittany Curran
#14. Meryl Streep is expert at only using the requisite amount of energy to express her character, not an ounce too little or too much. She's Zen and doesn't know she's Zen. That's very Zen!
Frederick Lenz
#15. I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
Meryl Streep
#16. Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.
Meryl Streep
#17. 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
#18. That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.
Meryl Streep
#19. It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.
Meryl Streep
#20. All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really, ... that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?
Meryl Streep
#21. I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow ... I think she's amazing.
Tara Reid
#22. Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.
Meryl Streep
#23. I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
Meryl Streep
#24. Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?
Steve Martin
#25. The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.
Meryl Streep
#26. When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.
Meryl Streep
#27. Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.
Meryl Streep
#28. It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.
Meryl Streep
#29. Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.
Meryl Streep
#30. One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.
Viola Davis
#31. Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
Meryl Streep
#32. It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.
Sarah Paulson
#33. People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before.
John Wells
#34. Definitely. Cate Blanchett or Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore - women that have no boundaries, no borders. They can do anything, They can be any character and you accept it and go with it as a viewer, and as an audience member. That's the kind of career that I'm looking for.
Jessica Biel
#35. I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep part. I've got to work on my Polish accent. Maybe I'll be the definitive King Lear one day. You know, if they ever feel that King Lear should be more Jewy.
Gilbert Gottfried
#36. The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep
#37. I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well.
Lindsay Duncan
#38. I believe in a world of opposites and that's why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
Meryl Streep
#39. Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.
Dick Cavett
#40. When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.
Meryl Streep
#41. 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
#42. I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our
President's personal savior, would have personally
dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?
Meryl Streep
#43. Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
Meryl Streep
#44. It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.
Janeane Garofalo
#45. My dream role would be someone anything that Meryl Streep can do. 'Julia and Julia' - I thought that was beautiful. She just had the essence of her. To truly become someone, invoking emotions like happiness and sadness and everything in between, that's what I want to be able to do.
Julia Voth
#46. [There is] type [of actors ]a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people. Meryl Streep is amazing at it.
Michelle Rodriguez
#47. What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
Meryl Streep
#48. Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.
Meryl Streep
#49. What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the protagonist. I feel what that guy is feeling. You know, if it's Tom Cruise leaping over a building - I want to make it, you know? And I'm going to - yes, I made it. And yeah, so I get that.
Meryl Streep
#50. I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.
Meryl Streep
#51. So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.
Meryl Streep
#52. There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
Meryl Streep
#53. I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.
Meryl Streep
#54. Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
Meryl Streep
#55. What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
Meryl Streep
#56. 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
#57. Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.
Truman Capote
#58. 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
#59. I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
Meryl Streep
#60. 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
#61. People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
Meryl Streep
#62. I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.
Meryl Streep
#63. 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
#64. Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
Meryl Streep
#65. It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
Meryl Streep
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
Meryl Streep
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
Meryl Streep
#73. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.
Amy Poehler
#79. 'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence.
Joanna Scott
#80. I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt ... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.
Meryl Streep
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
Meryl Streep
#85. 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
#86. It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.
Meryl Streep
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
Meryl Streep
#97. 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
#98. It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body
Meryl Streep
#99. 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
#100. [ 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
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
