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Meryl Streep Inspirational Quotes (155)

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We are the choices we have made.
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If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
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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.
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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.
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Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
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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.
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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.
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My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
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It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.
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You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.
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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
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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?
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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.
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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
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I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
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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?
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