Meryl Streep Quotes

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Meryl Streep

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 22, 1949

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Meryl Streep

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'

Meryl Streep

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

Meryl Streep

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

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I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

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I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.

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It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.

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I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.

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I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.

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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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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

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The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

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I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

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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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I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

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All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

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I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

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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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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

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