Meryl Streep Quotes

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Meryl Streep

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 22, 1949

Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.

Meryl Streep

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

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You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

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I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

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Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

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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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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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I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

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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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Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

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You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

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My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

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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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The work will stand, no matter what.

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Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

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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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I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

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Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

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I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.

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Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot.

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