Meryl Streep

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.

Meryl Streep

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

Meryl Streep

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

Meryl Streep

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

Meryl Streep

I’m curious about other people. That’s the essence of my acting. I’m interested in what it would be like to be you.

Meryl Streep

It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the film that we’re all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.

Meryl Streep

It’s so much easier to be happy. It’s so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you’re missing, or what it is that you’re imagining you’re missing. It is so much more peaceful.

Meryl Streep

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

Meryl Streep

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending or acting is a very valuable life skill and we all do it.

Meryl Streep

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

Meryl Streep