Meryl Streep

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Meryl Streep

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

Meryl Streep

I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it’s easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.

Meryl Streep

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I’m comfortable. I feel freer now. I don’t want growing older to matter to me.

Meryl Streep

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Meryl Streep

I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It’s like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.

Meryl Streep

I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that.

Meryl Streep

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.

Meryl Streep

I think I’m not a natural performer; I think I’m an actor.

Meryl Streep

I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.

Meryl Streep