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Meryl Streep Inspirational Quotes (155)

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The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.
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Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
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That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
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We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
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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.
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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
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I can't stand most things that I see.
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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.
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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.
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Guard your good mood.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
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America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
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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.
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
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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.
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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.
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It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.
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