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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.
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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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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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
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I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.
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Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.
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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
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For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.
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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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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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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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It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.
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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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No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.
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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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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.
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Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
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I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
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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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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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I'm all over the place.
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