Meryl Streep

“I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.”

“Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.”

“It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.”

“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.”

“I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.”

“You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.”

“Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.”

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

“You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.”

“Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.”

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

“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.”

“I think you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think your self emerges more clearly over time.”

“I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.”

“סטריפ, בת 59, היא לא רק שחקנית הקולנוע הכישרונית ביותר שעובדת כיום; היא השחקנית הכישרונית ביותר בתולדות הקולנוע כולו. ולכישרון כמו שלה יש יכולת משכרת: תענוג לעקוב אחריו בפעולה; תענוג לעקוב אחר כל מחווה שהיא יוצרת, אחרי האופן שבו היא מבטאת כל מילה, ואחרי הדרך – וזהו לעתים המבחן האמיתי של שחקנים – שבה היא מקשיבה לדבריהם של אחרים.”

“כך או כך, אין מנוס מלהודות שכבר שלושה עשורים מריל סטריפ נחשבת לשחקנית הגדולה ביותר של דורה. היא יודעת לרגש (אם לא בכיתם באולם, תדרשו את כספכם בחזרה), לעשות מבטאים (אח, איך היא חיקתה באופן מושלם את קולה הכל כך מזוהה של מרגרט תאצ'ר ב״אשת הברזל״), ואפילו לשיר (בגיל 12 למדה אופרה), ובשנים האחרונות היא פתאום הפכה משחקנית מוערכת גם לאטרקציה קופתית”

“גם הוא (ג'ון קאזאלה) אמר שלשחק איתי זה כמו לשחק טניס עם הגדולים ביותר.”