Quotes from Meryl Streep movies and TV shows - page 4 of 5

Donna: What are you doing here?
Bill: I'm writing a travel piece.
Harry Bright: I took a spontaneous holiday.
Sam Carmichael: I thought I'd drop in and say hi.

Young Donna: We only just met.
Young Bill: And you're not that kind of girl?
Young Donna: Absolutely not... usually.

Lee: This is my sister we're talking about. We're not gonna let her die just so you can have one of your moods.

Lee: We're going to see your Aunt Bessie in Florida. She's not feeling so well.
Hank: I didn't even knew I had an Aunt Bessie.
Lee: She came to the house right after your Dad and I were married.
Hank: I wasn't even born yet.
Lee: Oh.

Bessie: I wish we could get along.
Lee: We do get along.
Bessie: No I know but I mean really get along and be polite with one another.
Lee: We're Sisters.

Lee: We call it the loony bin, or the nut house, to show that we've got a sense of humor about it.

Kate Gulden: Thank you for the world so sweet.Thank you for the food we eat.Thank you for the birds that sing.Thank you, God, for everything.

Kate Gulden: It's so much easier to be happy, my love. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, and you have so much, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is you're imagining you're missing. It's so much more peaceful.

Kay Graham: News is the first rough draft of history.

Kay Graham: Quality drives profitability.

Suzanne Vale: Instant gratification takes too long.

Suzanne Vale: I have nothing to say.
Aretha: The same cannot be said for the rest of your family.

Doctor Frankenthal: Suzanne, we're going to have to pump your stomach.
Suzanne Vale: Ohhh... do I have to be there?

Jack Faulkner: I do not like this particular side of you.
Suzanne Vale: I'm not a box, I don't have sides. This is it, one side fits all.

Rhonda Johnson: Hey, that was a terrific eulogy you gave old man Soderbergh at his memorial service.
Garrison Keillor: Thank you.
Guy Noir: Too bad the old coot couldn't have been there to hear it.
Yolanda Johnson: Yeah... and to have missed it by just a few days.

Jack Bloomberg: Is it a client?
Lisa Metzger: No, it's my lover. Yes, it's a client.

Lisa Metzger: Sometimes you love, and you learn, and you... move on.

Corrine Whitman: Why don't you ask your boss how badly he really does want to stick his neck out for a terrorist.
Alan Smith: Well, he might for due process. Maybe I should have a copy of the Constitution sent to your office.

Corrine Whitman: I need a jackal, not an analyst.

Corrine Whitman: Honey, this is nasty business. There are upwards of 7,000 people in central London alive tonight, because of information that we elicited just this way. So maybe you can put your head on your pillow and feel proud for saving one man while 7,000 perish, but I got grandkids in London, so I'm glad I'm doing this job... and you're not.