A biography for Meryl Streephasn’t been written yet.
“I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.”
“You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”
“I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.”
“I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.”
“I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.”
“Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.”
“We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.”
“All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.”
“I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.”
“I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.”
“What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.”
“There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.”
“I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'”
“Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?”
“Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.”
“I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.”
“I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.”
“Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.”
“I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.”