408 Quotes by meryl streep
"No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man…' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal."
"This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change."
"~When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.~"
"She [ Anne Hathaway] is just a delicious talent. I think she can delight us for years and years in lots and lots of different things.Her own personality is so appealing and fresh and open and warm. I think she can have a unique career."
"I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed."
"I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music."
"I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute."
"We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love."