Meryl Streep Quotes

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

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

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

I think that 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.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you're low. We need each other in that way.

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 like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.