Meryl Streep Quotes

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep
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
Well, aren't we all grateful to be alive? I just know lots of people … at my age, I've lost a lot of people in my life and I'm very grateful to be here. That's what I mean.

Meryl Streep
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Meryl Streep
I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me You know, what I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep, they were so excited... all ze woman in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you.

Meryl Streep
Half of me is Streep and the other half is Wilkinson from Lincolnshire so I come by it honestly, this part.

Meryl Streep
I'm so sorry to hear this, but this is what it is. It makes it feels like it's sort of my fault on some level, but it also connect be to those events, those first encounters between the two cultures must have been raw, terrifying, brutal and final. conflicts in early American history, known as King Philip's War, or Metacom's War, Lawrence Wilkinson defended his town in the face of fierce violence from the Native Americans.

Meryl Streep
I am nothing but these people, and as an actor I'm always trying to call up lives and the reason I know these things as an actor is because I have the DNA of all these crazy people.

Meryl Streep
No! But they were here [in Los Angeles]. Here they were surprised, because it was difficult to finance, the film. A lot of the executives would say, 'I just don't get it.'

Meryl Streep
I am so daunted by [reputation] that I never think about it. It is a thing bigger than I am capable of perceiving. Other people are more aware and concerned with it than I could ever allow myself to be.

Meryl Streep
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep
I don't really. In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily …

Meryl Streep
Hollywood to me is what it is to you. It's something other than what I am. I sit outside it.

Meryl Streep
Today is about looking forward, into a world where so called 'women's issues' — human issues — of gender inequality live at the very crux of the global problems everyone suffers, from poverty to the age crisis, the rise in violent fundamentalist juntas, human trafficking and human rights abuses.

Meryl Streep