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

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

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

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

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
Meryl Streep

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

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

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

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.
Meryl Streep

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

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
Meryl Streep

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

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

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Meryl Streep

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep

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

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

The work will stand, no matter what.
Meryl Streep

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
Meryl Streep

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
Meryl Streep