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My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Mary Louise Streep
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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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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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And it took to The Devil Wears Prada to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way.
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I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I've worked with, no question. 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.
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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.
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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.
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It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
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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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Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.
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