Meryl Streep

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that ‘drug’ and go along with that.

Meryl Streep

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.

Meryl Streep

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.

Meryl Streep

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

Meryl Streep

I want to feel my life while I’m in it.

Meryl Streep

I’m a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

Meryl Streep

I’m never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

Meryl Streep

If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn’t be in the Middle East right now.

Meryl Streep

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

Meryl Streep

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

Meryl Streep