Meryl Streep quotes - page 3

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. (Meryl Streep)
I need to go where people are serious about acting. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm all over the place. View quote
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I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. (Meryl Streep)
I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s. View quote
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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. View quote
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I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. View quote
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Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else. View quote
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I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. View quote
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art. View quote
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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds! View quote
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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert. View quote
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Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time. View quote
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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change. (Meryl Streep)
We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group. View quote
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While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. View quote
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Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia. View quote
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The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself. View quote
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