Meryl Streep

“The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven...”

“Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.”

“Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on t...”

“Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a su...”

“People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.”

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

“All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.”

“People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Be...”

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

“I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.”

“I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopp...”

“I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best peop...”

“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 recor...”

“Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.”

“I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.”

“America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.”

“I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these...”

“Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful....”

“I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - the...”

“Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.”