Meryl Quotes

A dementia-friendly society is not yet in reach. ~ Meryl Comer

I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.' ~ Barbara Rosenblat

For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms. ~ Meryl Streep

I believe in a world of opposites and that's why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. ~ Meryl Streep

Jensen, have you forgotten I'm a psychopath?"

Raising his head, he gazed into her eyes. "No, you're not. You're a little mixed up. That's all. Having your whole family die so suddenly probably accounts for the way you behaved.

The heartrending tenderness in his smoldering blue eyes startled her. Oh, my God. She had unwittingly given him a way to excuse Shelly's actions.

He stretched out beside her with a slow, sexy smile. His touch was light, teasing, as he brushed her lower lip with the pad of his thumb.

"Jenson, knock it off. I'm dangerous…honest."

"So am I. ~ Meryl Sawyer

The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest
crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child.
Will Ferrell is a man. ~ Meryl Streep

They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK. ~ Meryl Streep

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. ~ Meryl Streep

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

She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important. ~ Meryl Streep

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

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. ~ Meryl Streep

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

I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue. ~ Meryl Streep

When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself. ~ Meryl Streep

I've often been mistaken for Meryl Streep, although never on Oscar night. ~ Glenn Close

TO: [email protected]
Oh god! Oh god! Oh shit! I have just sent the email I was meant to send to you, slagging off Meryl to Meryl by mistake. Damn this email invention. ~ Robert Bryndza

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

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. ~ Meryl Streep

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

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

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

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done. ~ Meryl Streep

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

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

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. ~ Meryl Streep

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. ~ Meryl Streep

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process. ~ Meryl Streep

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

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. ~ 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

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

But even with my minimal amount of fame, there are certain perks. Recently, I was at a movie premier, and at the party after the movie, Meryl Streep was loose, walking around the room like a normal person. Absolutely nothing was preventing me from lunging toward her and shrieking Dingoes ate my baby! Dingoes ate my baby! ~ Augusten Burroughs

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too. ~ Steve Erickson

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand. ~ Meryl Streep

Character determines fate. ~ Meryl Sawyer

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

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. ~ Meryl Streep

Expensive clothes are a waste of money. ~ Meryl Streep

Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband. ~ Meryl Streep

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

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. ~ Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep is on the program tonight. I like to throw her a little work whenever I can. ~ David Letterman

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that. ~ Jacki Weaver

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft. ~ Lavrenti Lopes

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else. ~ Meryl Streep

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. ~ Meryl Streep

Guard your good mood. ~ Meryl Streep

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

I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I look at her and I think, 'I'm chasing my kids, I've moved my parents in with me, I'm coping with food spills - that looks like me in real life'. Meryl looks like an unmade bed, and that's what I look like. To me, that looks true. ~ Sharon Stone

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

Meryl Streep does not make mistakes. Sometimes the world just can't keep up. ~ Tommy Lee Jones

I want to feel my life while I'm in it. ~ Meryl Streep

The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity. ~ Meryl Streep

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. ~ Meryl Streep

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century. ~ Denzel Washington

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

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

I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do. ~ Meryl Streep

Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that. ~ Zooey Deschanel

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

You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person. ~ Meryl Streep

I loved working with Meryl Streep twice and I've gotten to work with my friend Liam Neeson on several occasions. ~ Aidan Quinn

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

Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite thing you've ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn't feel the story through her body. ~ Meryl Streep

My mom is my role model. Charlie and I have two great sets of parents, but our moms are often the ones that go with us to competitions. My mom was with me in Sochi. I am so lucky to be a part of the Thank You Mom program partnered with Puffs and P&G. ~ Meryl Davis

To become a leader you must have a positive mental attitude, which you can achieve with positive self-talk and looking at what is right with people instead of what is wrong with them. ~ Elaine Meryl Brown

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

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

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

My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world. ~ Meryl Streep

There's no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress has something to offer. There aren't many Helen Mirrens and Meryl Steeps, and it takes a lot of talent to get to that level. I hope I have it. That's the model I aspire to if I'm lucky enough. It's all about luck. ~ Ayelet Zurer

I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?' ... Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness - your raging insecurity. ~ Meryl Streep

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

When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on ... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever. ~ Meryl Streep

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

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

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life. I'm gonna be Meryl Streep Rivers. ~ Joan Rivers

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

I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well. ~ Lindsay Duncan

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become. ~ Meryl Streep

I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented. ~ Mili Avital

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

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women, ~ Aaron Sorkin

Two of my favorite actresses are Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie. So, I would love, love, love to work with them. But I also really love AnnaSofia Robb. There are a lot of great actresses I would love to work with. ~ Willow Shields

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

I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system. ~ Meryl Davis

Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand. ~ Meryl Streep

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

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

I think you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice. ~ Meryl Streep

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us. ~ Meryl Streep

As far as actresses go, I love Meryl Streep. ~ Jennifer Nettles

Discipline
I am old and I have had
more than my share of good and bad.
I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden death
and been left alone and of love bereft.
I thought I would never love again
and I thought my life was grief and pain.
The edge between life and death was thin,
but then I discovered discipline.
I learned to smile when I felt sad,
I learned to take the good and the bad,
I learned to care a great deal more
for the world about me than before.
I began to forget the "Me" and "I"
and joined in life as it rolled by:
this may not mean sheer ecstasy
but is better by far than "I" and "Me. ~ Meryl Gordon

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other. ~ Meryl Streep

I was definitely very intimidated, but the instant Meryl Streep said 'Hi' to me, it all went away. ~ Lilla Crawford

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. ~ Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it. ~ Amy Poehler

The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP's-- this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!! ~ Meryl Streep

I got fired from a movie that ended up being called 'Windows,' which Gordon Willis, the cinematographer, directed. I got fired because he refused to cast Meryl Streep, who at the time was at Yale. I told him I thought he was an idiot, and he fired me. ~ Scott Rudin