Zitat des Tages von Meryl Streep:
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.
I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
I can't stand most things that I see.
I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.
Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.
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.
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.
For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.
I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
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.