A physical challenge is no less daunting than an emotional one-and there were emotional challenges in River Wild.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
I can't stand most things that I see.
I choose to work on things that put a positive energy out, because otherwise I don't know why I am alive.
I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
I have to start out with nothing each time. And reinvent the wheel. It's very, very hard.
I need to go where people are serious about acting.
I stopped picking these wild locations and my husband and I decided to stay in Los Angeles.
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
I think there is a kind of career path that demands a certain thing that not everybody wants to give.
I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
I was just interested in making a human being as contradictory and messy as we all are.
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.
I'm all over the place.
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.
I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.
I'm not comfortable at all on the first day, or the second day. But then we go to the bar and everything gets straightened out.
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
Instant gratification is not soon enough.
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
It does make me feel good when someone says, That was so wonderful, and I'll remember it all my life.
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
It takes more time than I care to give to my career. I have enormous responsibilities at home-I have four kids, and that's a big job.
It's been a long and really interesting journey with a lot of amazingly talented people.
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
My attitude is, Why not try this? So I go from thing to thing like any actor does, with my little bag, my dopp kit.
My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
My husband hates to be written about in my movie stuff.
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
Nicolas Cage, I loved working with him.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
Scripts leap out at you, the ones that are really ambitious.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
The critical reaction is satisfying. When other actors like you, that's really good. I really like it when young people like my work.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
The more people that go to the movies, the better, and the more good vehicles for women.
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
The work will stand, no matter what.
The younger group of women have wide opportunities right now to go through good material and get it made.
There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.
You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
Your life matters, and sometimes children listen and the lessons go in.
Meryl has presented both Peter O'Toole, in 2003, and Robert Altman, in 2005, their Honorary Academy Awards.
Meryl presented Paul McCartney his Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1990 Grammys.
At the 1986 Oscar's ceremony Meryl was considered the lock-favourite to win the Best Actress gong for Out of Africa. However it was Geraldine Page, an eight-time nominee, who eventually won and it was Meryl who led the standing ovation Geraldine received.
Meryl was not present at the 1990 Academy Awards ceremony where she was nominated for an award for Best Actress.
Meryl was considered for the role of Evita Peron in the film Evita, a role which eventually went to the singer Madonna Ciccone.
Meryl has a star on the Hollwood Walk of Fame, in honour of her contribution to motion pictures, at 7018 Hollywood Blvd.
Meryl's character, "Karen Silkwood" from her 1983 film Silkwood, was ranked No.47 on the American Film Institute's list of "Heroes of the 100 years of The Greatest Screen Heroes and Villains".
With a total of twenty one Golden Globe nominations, Meryl is the second most nominated Golden Globe performer, behind Jack Lemmon.
Meryl co-hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Liam Neeson in Oslo, Norway in 2001. The winner of the prize was United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
With a total of fourteen nominations, Meryl is the most nominated actor or actress ever for an Academy Award.
She made her big screen debut in the movie Julia (1977).
She's appeared in over 30 productions with the Yale Repertory Theatre.
In high school she was both a cheerleader and a Homecoming Queen.
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