
Famous Meryl Streep Quotes

Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed
“I live simply. I don't buy a lot of fashion!”
"Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty," 2009
“I don't really. In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily …”
When asked about her retirement.
"Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty," 2009
"Meryl Streep's British ancestor 'helped start war with Native Americans," 2012
Her indignant comments on the runaway success of her musical Mamma Mia!, which grossed a $575m across the globe.
"Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty," 2009
“Hollywood to me is what it is to you. It's something other than what I am. I sit outside it.”
"Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty," 2009
Source: Louis Hobson (1996) "It's so Nice to be nasty," Calgary Sun, December 8, 1996; Cited in: Karen Hollinger The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star http://books.google.co.in/books?id=89W0QMDjA7gC&pg=PA71&dq=Meryl+Streep&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Meryl%20Streep&f=false, Taylor & Francis, 2006, p. 90, playing down her acting ability.
"Meryl Streep's British ancestor 'helped start war with Native Americans," 2012
Meryl Streep Quotes about people
Source: Liz Smith (1998). "The Meryl Streep Nobody Knows." Good Housekeeping, 227(3), September 1998, pp. 94-98; Cited in: Karen Hollinger The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star http://books.google.co.in/books?id=89W0QMDjA7gC&pg=PA71&dq=Meryl+Streep&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Meryl%20Streep&f=false, Taylor & Francis, 2006, p. 71
"Meryl Streep's British ancestor 'helped start war with Native Americans," 2012
Her comment when she was to turn 60
"Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty," 2009