Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength? "

Meryl Streep

Grace

Strength

Fight

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. "

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

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

" I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are. "

" 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 to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves. "

" I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school. "

" I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. "

Meryl Streep

Feel

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

" Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time. "

" It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great. "

" You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. "

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

" I think your self emerges more clearly over time. "

" 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.' "

" Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. "

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

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

" 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 stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice. "

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

" 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 suit of armor you put on to fight for your love. "

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

" I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor. "

" Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it. "

" 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 supper. "

" I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine. "

Meryl Streep

Where

Still

" The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is. "

" I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s. "

Meryl Streep

Sure

Never