Meryl Streep Quotes

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

Parenting, Mother, Everyone

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

Someone, Different, Acting

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

Mom, Everything, Effect

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

Husband, Keep, Start

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
Meryl Streep

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep

Health, Children, Important

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

Great, Power, Human

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

Good, Men, Smart

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
Meryl Streep

Time, Everything, Put

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
Meryl Streep

Home, Care, Fashion

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

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
Meryl Streep

Life, Work, Best

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

Spoiled, Ironing

I need to go where people are serious about acting.
Meryl Streep

Serious, Acting

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
Meryl Streep

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Meryl Streep

Money, Waste, Clothes

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.
Meryl Streep

School, Children, Night

Instant gratification is not soon enough.
Meryl Streep

Enough, Soon, Instant

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
Meryl Streep

Children, Single, Decision

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
Meryl Streep

Through, After, Movie

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

Life, Movies, Busy

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
Meryl Streep

Character, Try, Won

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

Good, Compassion, Desire

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

Mother, Children, Before

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
Meryl Streep

Life, Good, Enough

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Nationality: American

Born: June 22, 1949

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