Meryl Streep Quotes About Imagine, Time, Character, Trends, Home

Meryl Streep Quotes:

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.
Meryl Streep

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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

I’m a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
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

Instant gratification is not soon enough.
Meryl Streep

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.
Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep with Husband
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Service is the only thing that’s important about love. Everybody is worried about ‘losing yourself’ – all this narcissism. Duty. We can’t stand that idea now either… But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.
Meryl Streep

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn’t be happy if I were home all the time.
Meryl Streep

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

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Meryl Streep

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
Meryl Streep

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don’t follow fashion or understand trends.
Meryl Streep

I didn’t have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Meryl Streep

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

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

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.
Meryl Streep

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

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

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

What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.
Meryl Streep

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

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Meryl Streep