Meryl Streep Quotes
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Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first.
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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.
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Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
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People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
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I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
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Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time
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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.
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Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
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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.
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People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?
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I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.
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Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.
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Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
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When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
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The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.
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I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.
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You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.
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I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
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Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
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We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
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First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me.
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There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.
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It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.
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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.
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I do know that we have delusions about ourselves in what we sound like.
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Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
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Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.
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I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
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And it interferes with your ability to be a good actress if you're constantly aware of yourself as a person. To me, it isn't valuable to think about how I'm coming off all the time if I'm trying to create a character, because that's a process that I love. It's like falling in love and surrendering to another person or a character.
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