Meryl Streep

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.

Meryl Streep

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

Meryl Streep

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.

Meryl Streep

I don’t have a favorite director just like I don’t have a favorite color or I don’t have a favorite food. I like everything.

Meryl Streep

I don’t have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

Meryl Streep

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.

Meryl Streep

I don’t think we can say that all working women will get divorced – it’s so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything – but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute.

Meryl Streep

I feel like I run a business although I haven’t one. It’s planning, planning, and planning.

Meryl Streep

I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. “Devil Wears Prada” did not make me change my style. But it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and really put together that look. I mean, wow. It’s amazing.

Meryl Streep

I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we’re giving to the world, what we’re withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

Meryl Streep