Top 98 Quotes by Meryl Streep

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'

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

I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.