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Instant gratification is not soon enough.

Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Summit
New Jersey
Mary Louise Streep
Meryl Louise Streep
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Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
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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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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
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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 your low. We need each other in that way.
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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 give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.
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And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.
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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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Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
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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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Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
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I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
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Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.
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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.
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