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That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction. -- Meryl Streep
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I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life. -- Meryl Streep
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When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner. -- Meryl Streep
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Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too. -- Meryl Streep
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I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. -- Meryl Streep
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Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. -- Meryl Streep
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People will say to me, 'You've played so many strong women' and I'll say, 'Have you ever said to a man, 'You've played so many strong men?' No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can't we have that expectation about women? -- Meryl Streep
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You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize that each day is a gift. -- Meryl Streep
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I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older. -- Meryl Streep
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I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up. -- Meryl Streep
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Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow. -- Meryl Streep
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Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment. -- Meryl Streep
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We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group. -- Meryl Streep
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Expensive clothes are a waste of money. -- Meryl Streep
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I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that. -- Meryl Streep
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I have a lot of people to thank and I'm going to be one of those people that tries to mention a lot of names, because I know just two seconds ago my mother and father went completely berserk and I'd like to give some other mothers and fathers that same opportunity. -- Meryl Streep
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Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other. -- Meryl Streep
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I think your self emerges more clearly over time. -- Meryl Streep
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Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work. -- Meryl Streep
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The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way. -- Meryl Streep
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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds! -- Meryl Streep
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They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend. -- Meryl Streep
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Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband. -- Meryl Streep
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Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand. -- Meryl Streep
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Sometime really good writing does you a disservice as an actor. Because you can get lazy. It's doing a lot of the work for you. I guess that's good. But at the same time with material that's not so good, you have to be more inventive, because no thought has been applied to it. -- Meryl Streep
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Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. -- Meryl Streep
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It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful. -- Meryl Streep
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It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building. -- Meryl Streep
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Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it. -- Meryl Streep
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The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way. -- Meryl Streep
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Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia. -- Meryl Streep
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There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever. -- Meryl Streep
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But for me, it [singing] was a way to get out the feeling of the song, and also to get out the feelings that, you know, roil in high school, to express something that I had no other way of expressing. -- Meryl Streep
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I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue. -- Meryl Streep
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While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. -- Meryl Streep
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I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs. -- Meryl Streep
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I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world. -- Meryl Streep
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Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath. -- Meryl Streep
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I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our
President's personal savior, would have personally
dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad? -- Meryl Streep
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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength. -- Meryl Streep
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It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not. -- Meryl Streep
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I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think. -- Meryl Streep
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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. -- Meryl Streep
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I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don't know if I'll live that long. -- Meryl Streep
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The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest
crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child.
Will Ferrell is a man. -- Meryl Streep
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That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life. -- Meryl Streep
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I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know. -- Meryl Streep
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How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. -- Meryl Streep
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I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. -- Meryl Streep
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It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it. -- Meryl Streep
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To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up. -- Meryl Streep
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I can't stand most things that I see. -- Meryl Streep
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All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really, ... that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express? -- Meryl Streep
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I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life. -- Meryl Streep
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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. -- Meryl Streep
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When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey. -- Meryl Streep
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I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that. -- Meryl Streep
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In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in. -- Meryl Streep
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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference. -- Meryl Streep
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I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt ... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet. -- Meryl Streep
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When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on ... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever. -- Meryl Streep
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I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women. -- Meryl Streep
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I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. "Devil Wears Prada" did not make me change my style. But it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and really put together that look. I mean, wow. It's amazing. -- Meryl Streep
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I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it. -- Meryl Streep
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If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations. -- Meryl Streep
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I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?' ... Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness - your raging insecurity. -- Meryl Streep
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In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me. -- Meryl Streep
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The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is. -- Meryl Streep
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I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit. -- Meryl Streep
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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. -- Meryl Streep
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I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. -- Meryl Streep
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I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband. -- Meryl Streep
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So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence. -- Meryl Streep
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We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love. -- Meryl Streep
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I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem? -- Meryl Streep
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We are the choices we have made. -- Meryl Streep
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I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket. -- Meryl Streep
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I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. -- Meryl Streep
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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert. -- Meryl Streep
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Pretending is a very valuable life skill. -- Meryl Streep
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That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work. -- Meryl Streep
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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. -- Meryl Streep
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I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. -- Meryl Streep
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I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram. -- Meryl Streep
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Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. -- Meryl Streep
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As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else. -- Meryl Streep
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She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important. -- Meryl Streep
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I get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually. -- Meryl Streep
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I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either. -- Meryl Streep
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I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me. -- Meryl Streep
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You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. -- Meryl Streep
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It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking. -- Meryl Streep
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A man has always been seen as someone who works hard and has a full-time occupation. I think women should have the same opportunity and not have any stigma attached to them if they choose to pursue their careers. -- Meryl Streep
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I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself. -- Meryl Streep
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My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help. -- Meryl Streep
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I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express. -- Meryl Streep
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If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it. -- Meryl Streep
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She [ Anne Hathaway] is just a delicious talent. I think she can delight us for years and years in lots and lots of different things.Her own personality is so appealing and fresh and open and warm. I think she can have a unique career. -- Meryl Streep
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There are some days when I, myself , think I'm overrated -- Meryl Streep
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Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything. -- Meryl Streep
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I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us. -- Meryl Streep
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Fear focuses the mind. -- Meryl Streep
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I don't think we can say that all working women will get divorced - it's so dangerous to make these things emblematic of anything - but having said that, every person who has a big, important job and tries to have a family, has to make decisions every single minute. -- Meryl Streep
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The work will stand, no matter what. -- Meryl Streep
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What led me to that was I have never - I mean, I watch movies and I don't care who is the protagonist. I feel what that guy is feeling. You know, if it's Tom Cruise leaping over a building - I want to make it, you know? And I'm going to - yes, I made it. And yeah, so I get that. -- Meryl Streep
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I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life. -- Meryl Streep
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Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. -- Meryl Streep
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There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. -- Meryl Streep
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When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid. -- Meryl Streep
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All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. -- Meryl Streep
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Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time -- Meryl Streep
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I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies. -- Meryl Streep
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I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed. -- Meryl Streep
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The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. -- Meryl Streep
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I'm all over the place. -- Meryl Streep
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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. -- Meryl Streep
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I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. My career has been given to me by the people I've worked with. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful. -- Meryl Streep
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You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school. -- Meryl Streep
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Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics, -- Meryl Streep
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. -- Meryl Streep
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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. -- Meryl Streep
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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. -- Meryl Streep
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Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. -- Meryl Streep
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. -- Meryl Streep
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Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes. -- Meryl Streep
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First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me, -- Meryl Streep
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You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. -- Meryl Streep
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We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you're low. We need each other in that way. -- Meryl Streep
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America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. -- Meryl Streep
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I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do. -- Meryl Streep
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I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning. -- Meryl Streep
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True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us. -- Meryl Streep
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My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. -- Meryl Streep
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Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. -- Meryl Streep
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You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting. -- Meryl Streep
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I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. -- Meryl Streep
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The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself. -- Meryl Streep
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I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. -- Meryl Streep
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The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world. -- Meryl Streep
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Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting. -- Meryl Streep
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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. -- Meryl Streep
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People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself. -- Meryl Streep
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I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music. -- Meryl Streep
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Guard your good mood. -- Meryl Streep
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The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments. -- Meryl Streep
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It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body -- Meryl Streep
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I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain. -- Meryl Streep
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You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process. -- Meryl Streep
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Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person. -- Meryl Streep
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Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her. -- Meryl Streep
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It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. -- Meryl Streep
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My family really does come first. It always did and always will. -- Meryl Streep
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You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way. -- Meryl Streep
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I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. -- Meryl Streep
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Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft. -- Meryl Streep
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Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it. -- Meryl Streep
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They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK. -- Meryl Streep
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My mother was someone that walked into a room and lit it up. She made friends easily and she communicated her enthusiasms with great joy. I always wanted to be more like my mother than I am. I loved and admired her very deeply. -- Meryl Streep
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I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. -- Meryl Streep
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For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms. -- Meryl Streep
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Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. -- Meryl Streep
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I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. -- Meryl Streep
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I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. -- Meryl Streep
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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. -- Meryl Streep
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Being an actor lets me be a million different things. -- Meryl Streep
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Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time. -- Meryl Streep
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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. -- Meryl Streep
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I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over. -- Meryl Streep
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The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize. -- Meryl Streep
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Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. -- Meryl Streep
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. -- Meryl Streep
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Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting. -- Meryl Streep
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I need to go where people are serious about acting. -- Meryl Streep
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I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts. -- Meryl Streep
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I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. -- Meryl Streep
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Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood. -- Meryl Streep
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Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head. -- Meryl Streep
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You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. -- Meryl Streep
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People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. -- Meryl Streep
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You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person. -- Meryl Streep
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Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food! -- Meryl Streep
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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. -- Meryl Streep
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We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8. -- Meryl Streep
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I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. -- Meryl Streep
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When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt. -- Meryl Streep
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What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it. -- Meryl Streep
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Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. -- Meryl Streep
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My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world. -- Meryl Streep
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I believe in a world of opposites and that's why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. -- Meryl Streep
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No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man ... ' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal. -- Meryl Streep
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People have to make their own decisions about their lives. -- Meryl Streep
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You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent ... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing. -- Meryl Streep
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The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity. -- Meryl Streep
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I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school. -- Meryl Streep
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If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now. -- Meryl Streep
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I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. -- Meryl Streep
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Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done. -- Meryl Streep
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The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed. -- Meryl Streep
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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star ... hope they never see the scars. -- Meryl Streep
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You have to embrace getting older -- Meryl Streep
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The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become. -- Meryl Streep
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One must be brave if one is to take the wheel. -- Meryl Streep
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Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives. -- Meryl Streep
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All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. -- Meryl Streep
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I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back. -- Meryl Streep
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When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself. -- Meryl Streep
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Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about. -- Meryl Streep
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For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. -- Meryl Streep
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Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul. -- Meryl Streep
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Instant gratification is not soon enough. -- Meryl Streep
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I want to feel my life while I'm in it. -- Meryl Streep
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On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies. -- Meryl Streep
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There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. -- Meryl Streep
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I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s. -- Meryl Streep