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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
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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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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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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
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I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.
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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 can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
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There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
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On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies.
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It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.
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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
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And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.
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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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Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
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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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It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the Devil Wears Prada that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.
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You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.
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I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.
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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
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And it took to The Devil Wears Prada to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way.
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Being an actor lets me be a million different things.
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