Quotes by Meryl Streep

“I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me You know, what I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep...”

“Hollywood to me is what it is to you. It's something other than what I am. I sit outside it.”

“I live simply. I don't buy a lot of fashion!”

“Well, aren't we all grateful to be alive? I just know lots of people … at my age, I've lost a lot of people in my life and I'm very grateful to be here. That's what I mean.”

“I don't really. In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily …”

“No! But they were here [in Los Angeles]. Here they were surprised, because it was difficult to finance, the film. A lot of the executives would say, 'I just don't get it.'”

“Half of me is Streep and the other half is Wilkinson from Lincolnshire so I come by it honestly, this part.”

“I am nothing but these people, and as an actor I'm always trying to call up lives and the reason I know these things as an actor is because I have the DNA of all these crazy people.”

“I'm so sorry to hear this, but this is what it is. It makes it feels like it's sort of my fault on some level, but it also connect be to those events, those first encounters between the two culture...”

“[On the situation for women in Afghanistan] Today in Kabul a female cat has more freedom than a woman. A cat may go sit on her front stoop and feel the sun on her face, she may chase a squirrel in ...”

“One of my only role models as a young woman was Meryl Streep and, specifically, her character in Out of Africa. I would watch the movie whenever I needed inspiration because Ms. Streep so brilliant...”

“Streep, who was born in New Jersey, is known to have historic family ties to Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.”

“Meryl Streep could obviously have made it to the screen on looks alone. The camera embraces her. Lucky camera. Many women would kill for her slender, fashion-model figure, for that ash-blond hair, ...”

“Even [being] in a rehearsal period, with Meryl Streep watching, is a behind-tightening experience.”

“Her roots go back to England: We traced her back to her eighth grand-grandfather born in England in 1620. In 1645, he shows up in Providence, Rhode Island, as one of the founding fathers of Rhode I...”

“Meryl Streep’s image is composed of two distinct image clusters centered on her renown as a great actress and her reputation as a devoted wife and mother. A more muted aspect of her star persona – ...”

“And at this stage in her seemingly charmed life, when she's moved to Los Angeles and has three children in three different private schools and is redoing a house on the Westside and worrying about ...”