Meryl Streep People Quotations

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

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

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

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

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize that each day is a gift.

I love Chinese movies and don't get enough of them in the United States and that's why people hold film festivals to make others aware of films in other countries,

It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.

If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.

I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

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.

People will say to me, 'You've played so many strong women' and I'll say, 'Have you ever said to a man, 'You've played so many strong men?' No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can't we have that expectation about women?

My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

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

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.

Hillary Clinton is so smart... People reserve a special venom for her.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.