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65 quotes by Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep (born Mary Louise Streep; June 22, 1949) is an American actress and producer. A three-time Academy Award winner, she is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actors of all time. Streep made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville in 1971, and went on to receive a 1976 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made her screen debut in the...
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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

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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.

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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.

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I can't stand most things that I see.

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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.

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Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.

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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.

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There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

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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.

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

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