“Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the gre...” — Meryl Streep Quote

Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

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.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

Usually, when you're an actress, you have to audition 20 times.

In the beginning, I didn't know if I was still a model, if I was an actress. I knew I wanted to be an actress, but it was so difficult to be believed.

It seemed too glamorous to me to be an actress like in the movies.

When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.