Meryl Streep

"My mother taught me that there were two things I could control in life: effort and attitude."

"I feel better in my clothes than out of them."

"Flexibility is a very important skill."

"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."

"You can't cook without profanity."

"What is a woman? What should she be? Let her be something of herself."

"There are moments when you feel free, alive, and right."

"If you have discipline, you can do anything."

"I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the sheets."

"The work is more important than any part of it."

"The best performance is the one that is most like the real person."

"Everyone likes compliments, but it's the truth that makes people grow."

"I don't think of myself as a movie star, I'm just an actress."

"Making the effort to manage your emotional life is what separates the good from the great."

"People have such a hard time letting go of an illusion."

"The awfulness of making a film never really goes away."

"A lot of my humor is self-deprecating."

"I get up in the morning and I do my job."

"I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a little girl."

"I don't have any regrets because my life is mine."

"Keeping secrets is exhausting."

"I'm interested in the world; I'm interested in how things work; I'm interested in ideas."

"You can never really know someone entirely."

"I think I'm one of the few actresses who is not afraid to show her age."

"Empathy is at the core of my practice."

"I'm pretty much a workaholic."

"If you can make people listen to you, you can make them feel almost anything."

"The harder the role, the better."

"Real art cannot be categorized."

"I'm not interested in playing people who see the world through a corporate lens."