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If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Mary Louise Streep
Meryl Louise Streep
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I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
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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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Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
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Well, I got better after this, and my entire family really did appreciate it. Usually, they're resentful of movies that I go off and make, but this one had a bonus attached. But yeah, she had no breath.
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
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There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.
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No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.
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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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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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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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I have a lot of people to thank and I'm going to be one of those people that tries to mention a lot of names, because I know just two seconds ago my mother and father went completely berserk and I'd like to give some other mothers and fathers that same opportunity.
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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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While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.
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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
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