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True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
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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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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Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
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We are the choices we have made.
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You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.
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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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You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.
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Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.
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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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Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
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For me, clothes are kind of character I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
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I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.
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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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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
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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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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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Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.
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That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
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Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.
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