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I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.
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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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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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 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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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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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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One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.
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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
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We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
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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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I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.
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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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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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Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
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Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.
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The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.
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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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