Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep is an American actress who has worked in theater, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented actors of all time.Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season (1977). Streep has received 17 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and 27 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award.

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The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

Meryl Streep

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

Meryl Streep

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

Meryl Streep

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Meryl Streep

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Meryl Streep

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Meryl Streep

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

Meryl Streep

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Meryl Streep