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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
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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That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
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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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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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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 didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
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For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
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One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.
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We are the choices we have made.
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I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
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I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.
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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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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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Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
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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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First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me.
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Instant gratification is not soon enough.
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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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We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.
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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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