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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Producer
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Television Producer
Voice Actor
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New Jersey
Mary Louise Streep
Meryl Louise Streep
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I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
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Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.
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It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
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My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
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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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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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In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.
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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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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
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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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I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that.
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There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
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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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In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: Get me this. But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.
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I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.
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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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Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
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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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