Meryl Streep Net Worth

Meryl Streep's Quotes

• [Entertainment Tonight (1981)] I had it (smoking), it stinks.
• [1978] I'm looking forward to bigger parts in the future, but I'm not doing soft-core scripts where the character emerges in half-light, half-dressed.
• [on her Lifetime Achievement Award from the AFI] I don't want to spit in the eye of good fortune, but it was weird. I felt like I'd butted in line in front of Lucille Ball, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn. Hello? How did this happen? I was only the sixth woman to receive it, but they found 26 men to give it to. I thought that was embarrassing.
• [on her view of acting back in college] I thought it was really fun, you've got to understand, but I didn't think it was a serious way to conduct your life. You know, I had a sense of mission. I was a true child of the '60s.
• I love doing comedy, but people just don't give me enough of a chance. It's one of the reasons I enjoy The Manchurian Candidate (2004) so much. It's because I actually get a chance to be funny.

Interesting Facts about Meryl Streep

1. Named Best Modern Actress in an Entertainment Weekly online poll, substantially beating out runner-up Michelle Pfeiffer. [September 1999]
2. Learned to play the violin, by practicing six hours a day for eight weeks, for her role in Music of the Heart (1999).
3. Has a fear of helicopters.
4. Listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1977" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 29.
5. Ranked #24 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
6. Received her Master's degree in Fine Arts from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (1975).
7. Received her Bachelor's degree cum laude from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York (1971).
8. Was romantically involved with actor John Cazale for two years, culminating with his death at age 42 in 1978 from lung cancer. She is very reluctant to discuss the relationship with anyone. The couple had been sharing a loft at 146 Franklin Street in Manhattan's Tribeca district.
9. Attended and graduated from Bernards High School in Bernardsville, New Jersey (1967).
10. Before succeeding as an actress, she was a waitress at the Hotel Somerset in Somerville, New Jersey.
11. Was a cheerleader and homecoming queen in high school.
12. She left her just-claimed Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) on the back of a toilet during the 1979 festivities.
13. Replaced Madonna for the lead role of Roberta Guaspari in Music of the Heart (1999).
14. In 2001, her son, Henry W. Gummer ("Hank") was a student at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
15. Sister-in-law of Maeve Kinkead.
16. Tennessee Williams wanted her for a film version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" in the 1980s. When Streep proved unavailable, the project was refashioned for television and the role of Blanche given to Ann-Margret.
17. Has a deviated septum, which she refuses to have fixed.
18. The children's television series Sesame Street (1969) has featured a character named "Meryl Sheep" in her honor.
19. Was originally supposed to play the role of Iris Hineman in Minority Report (2002), but had to back out. She was replaced by Lois Smith.
20. Her character Karen Silkwood from her film Silkwood (1983) was ranked #47 on the American Film Institute Heroes list of the 100 years of the Greatest Screen Heroes and Villians.