Meryl Streep Video

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.

In the South of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations.

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera -- both of which I did as soon as I left the [Acting] Company and was starving.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering and it's all over much too soon.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Sonny and Cher.

When someone told her "You're the only girl who I know who compliments herself" she replied "I think it's sweet that I do it, though"

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this?

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.

Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

To play it safe is not to play.

I like the fact that I have my friends I can go home to, hang out with and be a normal kid, because you only live once.

The best mind-altering drug is truth.

I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-- it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference; every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.