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Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

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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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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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.
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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.
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Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.
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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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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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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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I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.
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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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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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I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.
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Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
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The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.
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People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?
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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
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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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