Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streepis an American actress. Cited in the media as the "best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility in her roles, transformation into the characters she plays, and her accent adaptation. She made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville in 1971, and went on to receive a 1976 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 June 1949
CitySummit, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Meryl Streep quotes about
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I think we reserve a special place in our hearts for women who dare to try and be powerful, or occupy a special elevated place in society or when they are 'the bosses'. I think we really don't like it as a society and we have a harsh view of them. We look much harder at them, than the millions of men who aspire to the same positions and I can't figure that out.
It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!
(They are) improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
You have to embrace getting older