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

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

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it. — Meryl Streep

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

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

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning. — Meryl Streep

There are some days when I, myself , think I'm overrated — Meryl Streep

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

Character determines fate. — Meryl Sawyer

I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep. I guess actors just never feel secure. — Zoe Lister-Jones

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

I went up to Meryl Streetp and said 'I love you so much I want to tongue kiss you' And she said 'OK'. — Kate Winslet

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

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

[ 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

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

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

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. — Meryl Streep

I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up. — Meryl Streep

I keep my phone on the floor in my bedroom, and I turn the sound off when I sleep, but I never really turn my phone off. — Meryl Davis

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies. — Truman Capote

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

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. — Meryl Streep

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

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

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

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. — Meryl Streep

I thought Beauty and the Beast were two people, not one. — Meryl Sawyer

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize. — Meryl Streep

One piece of advice that I would give to any young athlete or performer is remember to thank your mom. — Meryl Davis

Expensive clothes are a waste of money. — 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. — 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

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength. — Meryl Streep

Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation. — Meryl Sawyer

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

Silence is golden when it's called for. Silence can be deadly
when it's not called for — Meryl Runion

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

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. — 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

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

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it. — Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats. — Dick Cavett

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

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

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body — Meryl Streep

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

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

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

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

To put it simply--our brain span should match our lifespan. — Meryl Comer

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

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. — Meryl Streep

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

Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right? — Brian Van Holt

Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind. — Douglas Adams

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

Just remember: to be grateful and thank the people who are there and support you along the way is a great start to success. — Meryl Davis

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. — Meryl Streep

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work. — Meryl Streep

If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations. — Meryl Streep

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. — Meryl Streep

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

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

Meryl Streep is awesome. — Isabelle Fuhrman

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine. — Cher

You have actresses like Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, who have roles specially written for them. — Leslie Caron

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts. — Meryl Streep

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

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

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. — Meryl Streep

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

People have to make their own decisions about their lives. — Meryl Streep

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life. — Meryl Streep

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

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. — Meryl Streep

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. — Meryl Streep

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

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person. — Meryl Streep

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

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel. — Meryl Streep

Wrinkled, wrinkled little star ... hope they never see the scars. — Meryl Streep

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

I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think. — Meryl Streep

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. — Meryl Streep

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

Guard your good mood. — Meryl Streep

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either. — Meryl Streep

There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep. — Blake Lively

I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work. — Bailee Madison

Fear focuses the mind. — Meryl Streep

I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket. — Meryl Streep

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

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

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. — Meryl Streep

I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep. — Diane Keaton

This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer. — Meryl S. Kavanagh

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. — Meryl Streep