Meryl Streep

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

“All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.”

“There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.”

“It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.”

“You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.”

“The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.”

“Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word.”

“I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.”

“Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”

“I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.”

“My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.”

“It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for...”

“I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.”

“Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.”

“I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'”

“There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.”