Meryl Streep Quotes

I follow no doctrine. I don’t belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

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

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

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.

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.

There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.

Without question, of the heterosexual men that I’ve spoken to over the years, that’s usually – they say, you know, my favorite thing you’ve ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn’t feel the story through her body.

I don’t think we can say that all working women will get divorced – it’s so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything – but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.

I’m all over the place.

Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn’t keep up with her.

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there’s something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?