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I have a lot to say about the world, clearly. I can't put together a clear sentence about it all, but through the work I can say what I think.
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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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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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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It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
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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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You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting.
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I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
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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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Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
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True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
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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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I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
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I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
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My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
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What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
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The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.
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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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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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