Meryl Streep

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

Meryl Streep

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I’m superstitious enough to believe that.

Meryl Streep

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Meryl Streep

My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply.

Meryl Streep

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I’m not sure that I’m that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies.

Meryl Streep

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

Meryl Streep

People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

Meryl Streep

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don’t think it really changes.

Meryl Streep

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.

Meryl Streep