Meryl Streep

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
― Meryl Streep

Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
― Meryl Streep

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
― Meryl Streep

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man…' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.
― Meryl Streep

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
― Meryl Streep

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
― Meryl Streep

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
― 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

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
― Meryl Streep

I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?
― Meryl Streep

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
― Meryl Streep

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
― Meryl Streep