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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.

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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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 never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.
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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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Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work.
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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
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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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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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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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My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
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Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.
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I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
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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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Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.
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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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Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
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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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I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
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