Meryl Streep

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

Meryl Streep

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

Meryl Streep

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.

Meryl Streep

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

Meryl Streep

It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.

Meryl Streep

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.

Meryl Streep

Let’s face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

Meryl Streep

Life is all about making choices and I’m very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I’ve also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.

Meryl Streep

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Meryl Streep

My advice: Don’t waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.

Meryl Streep