Meryl Streep movie quotes

“- Karen: What's wrong with marriage anyway?
- Denys: Have you ever seen one you admire?
- Karen: Yes, I have, many. Belfield's, for one.
- Denys: He sent her home for the rains in 1910. Didn't tell her they were over until 1913.”
Meryl Streep - Karen
Robert Redford - Denys

“In this system, our system, the slaves are unaware, both of their status and of their masters, who exist in a world apart, and where the shackles are hidden amidst reams of unreachable legalese. It is a result of massive, pervasive corruption of the legalprofession. When it takes a whistle blower to sound the alarm, it is cause for even greater...” (continue)(continue reading)
Meryl Streep - Ellen Martin

“- Ben Bradlee: We have to be the check on their power. If we don't hold them accountable, then, my God, who will?
- Kay Graham: Well, I've never smoked a cigar. And I have no problem holding Lyndon or Jack or Bob or any of them accountable. We can't hold them accountable if we don't have a newspaper.”
Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee
Meryl Streep - Kay Graham

“He took me to a private sitting room, ordered food. But... he had changed. He was full of smiles and caresses, but... I knew at once that he was insincere. I saw that I had been... an amusement for him. Nothing more. I saw all this within... five minutes of our meeting. Yet I stayed.”

Meryl Streep - Sarah

“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over...” (continue)(continue reading)
Meryl Streep - Karen

“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”
Meryl Streep - Clarissa Vaughan

“- Daniel Miller: What is this?
- Julia: It's my hotel.
- Daniel Miller: This is your hotel?
- Julia: Where are you staying?
- Daniel Miller: Obviously at the place for people that weren't very generous and didn't adopt anybody. I'm at the Continental. Come over one day; we'll paint it.”
Albert Brooks - Daniel Miller
Meryl Streep - Julia

“My feelings for you, Hank, are like a big bowl of - fish hooks. I can't just pick up one up at a time. I pick one up and they all come, so I just had to leave 'em alone.”

Meryl Streep - Lee

“Washington always has to have a hero.”
Meryl Streep - President Orlean

“You cannot go around telling people that there is a 100% chance that they're gonna die.”
Meryl Streep - President Orlean

“Florence Foster Jenkins-Now, I must warn you, I work very hard. I study an hour every day. Sometimes two. And my father didn't leave me as much money as everybody thinks, so I couldn't pay you more than a hundred and fifty.
Cosmé McMoon-A month?
Florence Foster Jenkins-A week. I'm not destitute!”
Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins
Simon Helberg - Cosmé McMoon

“St Clair Bayfield-You are not strong enough, Bunny. What if it kills you?
Florence Foster Jenkins-Then I shall die happy.”
Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins
Hugh Grant - St Clair Bayfield

“People may say I couldn't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing.”
Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins

“He took my little tiny blueberry heart and he just squished it.”
Meryl Streep - Dee Dee Allen

“We aren’t monsters. We’re cultural disrupters.”
Meryl Streep - Dee Dee Allen

“It's possible to be right and foolish.”
Meryl Streep - Aunt March

“I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.”
Meryl Streep - Aunt March

“Thank you, Lord, thank you. Thank you for everything. I hate to ask this, but I was just wondering when exactly the meek will be inheriting the Earth?”
Meryl Streep - Ellen Martin

“My decision stands, and I'm going to bed.”
Meryl Streep - Kay Graham

“- Lisle Von Rhoman: How old would you guess I am? C'mon, don't try to flatter me.
- Madeline Ashton: Thirty-eight?
[Lisle Von Rhoman glares at her]
- Madeline Ashton: Twenty-eight... no, twenty-three.”
Isabella Rossellini - Lisle Von Rhuman
Meryl Streep - Madeline Ashton

“- Janine Roth: Why did we send 150,000 troops to a country that did not attack us, and one-tenth that number to the one that did?
- Senator Jasper Irving: How many times are you people going to ask the same question?
- Janine Roth: Till we get the answer.”
Meryl Streep - Janine Roth
Tom Cruise - Senator Jasper Irving

“- Ted Kramer: What's up? Tell me. What? What's the matter?
- Joanna Kramer: I woke up this morning, kept thinking about Billy and I was thinking about him waking up in his room with his little clouds all around that I painted and I thought I should have painted clouds downtown because then he would think that he was waking up at home. I came...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dustin Hoffman - Ted Kramer
Meryl Streep - Joanna Kramer

“Actually... I'm looking for Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man.”
Meryl Streep - Kay

“Do you know what my husband said about the news? He called it the first rough draft of history.”
Meryl Streep - Kay Graham

“I'm hereasking your advice, Bob, not your permission.”

Meryl Streep - Kay Graham