10 quotes
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
I live simply. I don't buy a lot of fashion!
Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty (2009)
I am so daunted by [reputation] that I never think about it. It is a thing bigger than I am capable of perceiving. Other people are more aware and concerned with it than I could ever allow myself to be.
Louis Hobson (1996)
No! But they were here [in Los Angeles]. Here they were surprised, because it was difficult to finance, the film. A lot of the executives would say, 'I just don't get it.'
Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty (2009)
I don't really. In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily …
Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty (2009)
Half of me is Streep and the other half is Wilkinson from Lincolnshire so I come by it honestly, this part.
Meryl Streep's British ancestor 'helped start war with Native Americans (2012)
Hollywood to me is what it is to you. It's something other than what I am. I sit outside it.
Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty (2009)
I am nothing but these people, and as an actor I'm always trying to call up lives and the reason I know these things as an actor is because I have the DNA of all these crazy people.
Meryl Streep's British ancestor 'helped start war with Native Americans (2012)
I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.
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