Meryl Streep Quotes

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

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. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me.

I think you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

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

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.