Did I say that?: Meryl Streep

ASKED IF CGI WAS USED FOR HER SPLITS SCENE IN "MAMMA MIA!" Of course. They grafted my face on to Olga Korbut's body (2008) ASKED HOW SHE ASSISTS YOUNGER ACTORS WORKING WITH HER I give them Dramamine [the drug for nausea] (2006) ON PURSUING THE LEAD ROLE IN EVITA I can sing better than Madonna. If she gets it, I'll rip her throat out (1995) ACCEPTING AN AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD You would think they could have suspended alternate-side- of-the-street parking on my behalf. But no (2004) ON DUSTIN HOFFMAN The greatest combination of the generous and the selfish that ever lived (1984) ON THE YOUNG MERYL I just wanted to be in the middle of the living room, with my mother's slip over my head, playing the Virgin Mary and making my little brother be Jesus (2005) ASKED IF SHE COULD REMEMBER HER LINES AFTER A COUPLE OF SCRIPT READS Yes. But that was before the menopause (1985) ON HER IRISH ROLE IN "DANCING AT LUGHNASA" I had a number of pints of Guinness and after that it didn't matter how I did the accent (1998) ON FILM CRITIC PAULINE KAEL'S CLAIM THAT STREEP ACTS "ONLY FROM THE NECK UP" You know what I think? That Pauline was a poor Jewish girl at Berkeley with all these rich Pasadena WASPs with long blonde hair, and their heartlessness got to her; then, years later, she saw me (2008) "MISREADING" AN ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT THE BAFTAS FOR ABSENT SCREENWRITER CHARLIE KAUFMAN I would like to spank director Spike Jonze (2003) ON NUDITY AT HOME In Australia there was a lot of press coverage of our home… and my daughter appeared there in front of the press corp, nude at 3am, and took a long, slow walk down the stairs. A chip off the old block (2005) ON WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN If I hadn't gone to college, I would be Cher (2003) ON HER BEAUTY SECRETS Here's one: I don't wash my hair often. My record was three weeks (2003)★