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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.

Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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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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The work will stand, no matter what.
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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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Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.
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It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
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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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We are the choices we have made.
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When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.
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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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And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.
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Instant gratification is not soon enough.
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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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The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.
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Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.
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I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.
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How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
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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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Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
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