Meryl Streep Quotes

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Meryl Streep

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 22, 1949

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

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I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

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Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.

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I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

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What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.

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Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.

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I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.

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I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

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I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

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You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.

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You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

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People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

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I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.

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I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.

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There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

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Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

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