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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
Meryl Louise 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.
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If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
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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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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
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Without question, of the heterosexual men that I've spoken to over the years, that's usually - they say, you know, my favorite thing you've ever done was Linda or Sophie. And they were a particular kind of very feminine, recessive kind of personality. So they fell in love with her, but they didn't feel the story through her body.
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Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.
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I love food and I love sex.
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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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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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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.
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One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.
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The work will stand, no matter what.
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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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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
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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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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
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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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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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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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