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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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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.
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Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
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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 guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
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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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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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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
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My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
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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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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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I love food and I love sex.
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I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
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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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