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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.
Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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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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I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.
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I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.
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When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.
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I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.
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Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.
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Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
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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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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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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
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The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child. Will Ferrell is a man.
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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'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
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Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
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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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I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
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Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
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You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.
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