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Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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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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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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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
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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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The work will stand, no matter what.
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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
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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 think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
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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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Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
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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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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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