Meryl Streep

Instant gratification is not soon enough. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#gratification #instant #instant gratification #soon

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

— Meryl Streep

#i #life #my life #want #while

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#attention #find #i #lighting #perfect

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#america #day-to-day #day-to-day life #either #life

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#first #how #industry #meet #perception

I can't stand most things that I see. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#i see #most #see #stand #things

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

— Meryl Streep

#effect #essentials #everything #gets #motherhood

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#ass #because #costume #designers #feelings

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#acting #curious #essence #i #interested

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

— Meryl Streep

#before #believe #children #did #had