Meryl Streep Quotes
An American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film.
(1949 - )
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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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All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
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All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
[Attention]
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America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
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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.
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Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
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Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
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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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Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
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For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
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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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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 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.
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I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
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I can't stand most things that I see.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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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