Meryl Streep Quotes

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Meryl Streep

Profession : Actress

Birth : June 22, 1949

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

Meryl Streep

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

Meryl Streep

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

Meryl Streep

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

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America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

Meryl Streep

Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love.

Meryl Streep

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

Meryl Streep

I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.

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Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

Meryl Streep

People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.

Meryl Streep

Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word.

Meryl Streep

I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.

Meryl Streep

I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.

Meryl Streep

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

Meryl Streep

When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

Meryl Streep

I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.

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