Meryl Streep

This is your time and it feels normal to you but really there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it and then more change.

I want to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and have decide that the best way forward is to take some time off.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.

Huge ego is very often matched by huge insecurity.

No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful.

For a long time I hated my body, because I was constantly suffering. But now I look at it like an old Mercedes with chrome bumpers. It costs a fortune to repair, it breaks down all the time, you can only use it once a week, the seat leather is starting to crack – but nonetheless it’s mine.

Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery

I think I remind everyone of themselves. Not saying everyone is my size, but it’s relatable because I’m not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.

I didn’t have high self-esteem when I was a teenager, as I think most teenagers don’t.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Let’s love ourselves then we can’t fail to make a better situation tomorrow. Our seeds will grow, all we need is dedication.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

I have an attention span that’s as long as it has to be.

If I don’t feel confident about my body, I’m not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It’s all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it’s fitness or whatever.

I had some beautiful pictures taken in which I had a big smile on my face. I looked happy, I looked content, I looked like a very nice person, which in theory I am.

The way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that’s only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.