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I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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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.
Meryl Streep
The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.
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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
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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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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 don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.
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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 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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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
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The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.
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Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
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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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Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
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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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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.
Meryl Streep
I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.
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I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.
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How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
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Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.
Meryl Streep
For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.
Meryl Streep
