Meryl Streep quotes

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. (Meryl Streep)
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. View quote
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If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it. View quote
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The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed. View quote
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There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. View quote
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Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. View quote
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All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. View quote
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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. (Meryl Streep)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is. View quote
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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. View quote
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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. View quote
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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. View quote
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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. View quote
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All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. (Meryl Streep)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want to feel my life while I'm in it. View quote
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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. View quote
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