Meryl Streep Quotes

• There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

  Meryl Streep

• The work will stand, no matter what.

  Meryl Streep

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

  Meryl Streep

• The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

  Meryl Streep

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

  Meryl Streep

• The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

  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

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

  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

• 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

• 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

• Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don’t think it really changes.

  Meryl Streep

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

  Meryl Streep

• Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men.

  Meryl Streep

• My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

  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

• My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

  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

• You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

  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

Meryl Streep (68)

Birth:	22nd June, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Producer, Singer

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