Quotes by Meryl Streep

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

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.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

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

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.