Quotes from Meryl Streep

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

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.

Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

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

The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.

I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

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.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

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

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

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

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.

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

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