Meryl Streep Quotes

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Meryl Streep

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 22, 1949

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

Meryl Streep

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

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The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

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I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

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I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

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I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

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Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

Meryl Streep

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

Meryl Streep

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

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I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

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I can't stand most things that I see.

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How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

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I'm all over the place.

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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

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Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

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I need to go where people are serious about acting.

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The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

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Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

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Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

Meryl Streep