Quotes from Meryl Streep movies and TV shows - page 3 of 5

Margaret Thatcher: We will stand on principle... or we will not stand at all.

Margaret Thatcher: Sink it.

Margaret Thatcher: It's time to get up! It's time go to work! It's time to put the great back into Great Britain.

Alexander Haig: So you are proposing to go to war over these islands. They're thousands of miles away, a handful of citizens, politically and economically insignificant, if you'll excuse me.
Margaret Thatcher: Just like Hawaii... I imagine.

Margaret Thatcher: It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

Jane: Don't you ever eat at your house?
Jake: Pedro dictates most meals and he has a very... limited palate.

Jane: I like a lot of semen, always have.

Jake: I don't regret giving it another shot.
Jane: It probably would have worked, if you hadn't been married.
Jake: I wouldn't have considered it, if I wasn't.
Jane: I don't regret it either.

Jane: Jane?
Jane: Hi.
Adam: Did you get this high from one hit?
Jane: Yeeeaaaaaahhh.

Jane: AW! It's official! We are having an affair.
Jake: Why do you need to label everything?
Jane: Because! THAT'S what this is.

Jane: Do you poke smot?

Jane: I was going to call you last night, and then you wouldn't have taken the call. It would have of gone on for months and.
Adam: I would have taken the call.

Paul Child: What is it you REALLY like to do?
Julia Child: Eat!

Julia Child: I'm Julia Child. Bon appetit!

Professor Stephen Malley: You know, professors aren't teachers, they're salesman.
Janine Roth: Okay, so what do you sell?
Professor Stephen Malley: You, to you.

Senator Jasper Irving: Through precise military action, we will take the essential first step.
Janine Roth: First step? But what have we been doing for the past six years, Senator? World War II took less than five.

Janine Roth: We took Iraq? How did I miss that?

Donna: I grew up.
Tanya: Well, grow back down then!

Sophie: I don't care if you've slept with hundreds of men!
Donna: I haven't slept with HUNDREDS of men!

Donna: You sound like you're having fun already.
Ali: Oh, we are!
Donna: I used to have fun!
Ali: Oh, we know!