We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do.
Meryl StreepAll that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
Meryl StreepI didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Meryl StreepI follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
Meryl StreepListening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.
Meryl Streep