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I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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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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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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The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.
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We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way.
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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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When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.
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The work will stand, no matter what.
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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.
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For me, clothes are kind of character I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
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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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Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
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We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
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Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.
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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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The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.
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Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.
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That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
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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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