What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

- Meryl Streep

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

- Meryl Streep

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, …

- Meryl Streep

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

- Meryl Streep

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

- Meryl Streep

There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.

- Meryl Streep

Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

- Meryl Streep

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

- Meryl Streep

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

- Meryl Streep