Meryl Streep

"Well, aren't we all grateful to be alive? I just know lots of people … at my age, I've lost a lot of people in my life and I'm very grateful to be here. That's what I mean."

"I don’t know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin’s Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me “You know, what I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep, …"

"I am nothing but these people, and as an actor I’m always trying to call up lives and the reason I know these things as an actor is because I have the DNA of all these crazy people."

"No! But they were here . Here they were surprised, because it was difficult to finance, the film. A lot of the executives would say, 'I just don't get it.'"

"I’m so sorry to hear this, but this is what it is. It makes it feels like it’s sort of my fault on some level, but it also connect be to those events, those first encounters between the two cultures m…"

"I am so daunted by that I never think about it. It is a thing bigger than I am capable of perceiving. Other people are more aware and concerned with it than I could ever allow myself to be."

"Half of me is Streep and the other half is Wilkinson from Lincolnshire so I come by it honestly, this part."

"I don't really. In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily …"