Famous Quotes

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

Meryl Streep on Mom

More quotes about Mom

• "My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."

  George Washington on Mom

• "The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

  Jessica Lange on Mom

• "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

  Mark Twain on Mom

• "Men are what their mothers made them."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Mom

• "My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

  Pablo Picasso on Mom

More quotes by Meryl Streep

• "America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances."

• "I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."

• "The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."

• "Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."

• "All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene."