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The work will stand, no matter what.
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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I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.
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It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
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I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.
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While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
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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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It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.
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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'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
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When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever.
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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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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.
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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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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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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've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and Spin And Marty. The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.
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I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
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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 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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