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Meryl Streep Quotes

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

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

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

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

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 always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

I always thought I was so fat, and I was not fat! And then I think, Oh, I was so young!

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

I choose to work on things that put a positive energy out, because otherwise I don't know why I am alive.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

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

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 don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

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

I have the power to pick what I want to be in of the things that are offered to me-most of which are dreadful.

I have to start out with nothing each time. And reinvent the wheel. It's very, very hard.

I stopped picking these wild locations and my husband and I decided to stay in Los Angeles.