Quotes from Meryl Streep

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.

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

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

Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

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

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

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

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

It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.

Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot.

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

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.

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.

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

I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

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

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.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?