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Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
Actor
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Mary Louise Streep
Meryl Louise Streep
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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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Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
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I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
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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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We are the choices we have made.
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So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.
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Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
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Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.
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I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.
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Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.
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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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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 really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that.
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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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Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.
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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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Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
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I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
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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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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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