Meryl Streep
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
-Meryl Streep
age
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
beauty
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
-Meryl Streep
business
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
-Meryl Streep
business
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
-Meryl Streep
faith
My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
-Meryl Streep
family
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
-Meryl Streep
family
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
-Meryl Streep
great
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
-Meryl Streep
health
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
home
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
-Meryl Streep
home
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
-Meryl Streep
imagination
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
-Meryl Streep
mom
Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
-Meryl Streep
money
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
-Meryl Streep
movies
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
-Meryl Streep
movies
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
movies
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
-Meryl Streep
parenting
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
-Meryl Streep
power
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.
-Meryl Streep
work
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