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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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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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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Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
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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 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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Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
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True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
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They filled our lives so much, the films they were in made us laugh, think and cry. Through their work they shared a piece of our soul. We will miss them with the sadness with which we miss an old friend.
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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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Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.
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The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.
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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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We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.
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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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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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Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
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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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You have to embrace getting older.
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Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.
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The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.
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Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
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