Top 98 Quotes by Meryl Streep

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

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.