The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2017 (2017 TV Special)

Meryl Streep: Self - Winner

Quotes 

• Herself - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient : [on Donald Trump]  An actor's job is to enter the lives of people who are different from us and let you feel what that feels like. But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sanks its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. There was nothing good about it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended audience laugh and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it and I still can't get it out of my head. Because it wasn't it in a movie, it was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it's modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful... it filters down into everyone's life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrepsect. Violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose. This brings me to the press. We need the principled press to hold power to account, to call them on the carpet for every outrage. That's why our founders enshrined its press and its freedom in our Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting a committe to protect journalists, because we're gonna need them going forward, and they'll need us to safeguard the truth.

• Herself - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient : Just to pick on what Hugh Laurie said, you and all of us in this room, really, belong to the most villified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press. But who are we, what is Hollywood anyway? It's just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised in the public schools of New Jersey. Viola was born in a sharecrooper's cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids from Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vincenza, Italy. Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga, was born in Addis Abada, Ethiopia, raised in London - no, in Ireland, I do believe - and she's nominated for playing a small town girl from Virginia. Ryan Gosling, like all the nicest people, is Canadian. And Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, is here for playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners, and if you kick them all out, we'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

• Herself - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient : As my friend, the dear departed princess Leia said to me once, "take your broken heart, make into art."