Quotes from Meryl Streep

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

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs.

I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

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

I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.

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

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

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

The work will stand, no matter what.

I can't stand most things that I see.

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

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

I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

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 had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.