Meryl Streep movie quotes

View Quote Also, tell Richard I saw all the pictures that he sent for that feature on the female paratroopers and they're all so deeply unattractive. Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female paratrooper? Am I reaching for the stars here? Not really.

View Quote If I see freesias anywhere, I will be very disappointed. [There is an alternate version of this line on the deleted scenes]

View Quote By all means move at a glacial pace; you know how that thrills me.

View Quote Donna: [hugging Sophie] Look at my baby, her whole life ahead of her.

View Quote Donna: I'd better be dreaming, you'd better not be here.

View Quote Donna: Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it's my mother.

View Quote Ernest is dead? Everybody's dead!

View Quote (whilst peering through a gaping hole in Helen) You're a fraud, Helen. A walking lie and I can see right through you.

View Quote And she even paid for the hardware. Don't you just love it?

View Quote I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.

View Quote That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.

View Quote When I'm with him I feel... Yes, I am living. And when I'm not with him... Yes, everything does seem sort of silly.

View Quote Change is not a choice.

View Quote It's over. Everything, I did everything wrong. I want my life back. I want it back before everything got **** up. I want to be a baby again. I want to be new. I WANT TO BE NEW.

View Quote I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. I want to know how it feels to care about something passionately.

View Quote I like a lot of semen, always have.

View Quote Do you poke smot?

View Quote Jake: I'm sorry.
Jane: How far back does that "sorry" go?
Jake: How far back do you need it to go?
Jane: Wa-ay back.

View Quote Michael: What kind of beer would you like?
Linda: What? I don't know. I don't care. Any kind.
Michael: I'll get you a Rolling Rock.
Linda: Okay.
Michael: It's a good beer, it's the best around.

View Quote Linda: I was hoping, somehow Michael, maybe you had Nick with you...He never wrote to me, he never called me.

View Quote Linda: Why don't we go to bed? Can't we just comfort each other?
Michael: No, I can't. Not here. I gotta get out of here. I'm sorry. I just gotta get out...Look, I don't know. I feel a lot of distance and I feel far away. I'll see ya later.

View Quote Raymond: I served under him. He was a good man.
Eleanor: Well, that's what the neighbors always say about serial killers.

View Quote [manipulating Raymond]
Eleanor: Sergeant Shaw.
Raymond: [abruptly] What...?
Eleanor: Sergeant Raymond Shaw.
Raymond: Mother, I...
Eleanor: Raymond Prentiss Shaw.
Raymond: Yes.
Eleanor: Listen.

View Quote Eleanor: Oh, God! Where all the men anymore? My father, Tyler Prentiss, never asked, "Is this okay? Is this okay?" You know what I'm saying, Mark? He just did what needed to be done.

View Quote Joanna Kramer: I love you, Billy.
Billy Kramer: I love you too, Mommy.

View Quote [Joanna returns to New York]
Joanna Kramer: All my life I've felt like...somebody's wife or somebody's mother, somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself. I got myself a job. I got myself a therapist, a really good one. And I feel better about myself than I ever have in my whole life. I learned a great deal about myself.
Ted Kramer: Such as?... No, really, I'd really like to know what you learned.
Joanna Kramer: Well, I've learned that I love my little boy. And that I'm capable of taking care of him.
Ted Kramer: What do you mean?
Joanna Kramer: I want my son.
Ted Kramer: You can't have him
Joanna Kramer: Don't get defensive. Don't try to bully me.
Ted Kramer: I'm not getting defensive. Who walked out 15 months ago?
Joanna Kramer: I don't care. I'm still his mother.
Ted Kramer: Yeah, from 300 miles away. And because you sent post cards gives you the right to come back?
Joanna Kramer: I never stopped wanting him.
Ted Kramer: What makes you sure he wants you?
Joanna Kramer: What makes you sure he doesn't want me?
Ted Kramer: Okay look. We're gonna sit here and bat this back and forth. It's like old times.
Joanna Kramer: You can't deny me...
Ted Kramer: Don't tell me what I can or cannot do! Don't talk to me that way!
Joanna Kramer: I anticipated this.
Ted Kramer: Okey look, I don't want to hear this. Do what you have to. I'll do what I have to.
Joanna Kramer: Fine... I am very sorry about this.
Ted Kramer: Okey, just do what you have to do.

View Quote Joanna Kramer: I woke up this morning, kept thinking about Billy and I-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 here to take my son home. And I realized he already is home. Oh, I love him very much. [Joanna and Ted hug] I'm not gonna take him with me. Can I go up and talk to him?...
Ted Kramer: Listen why don't you go upstairs and see him and I'll wait here.
Joanna Kramer: [wipes the tears from her eyes and pats her hair] How do I look?
Ted Kramer: You look terrific.