Meryl Streep Quotes
Meryl Streep Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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 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 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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I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
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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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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
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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.
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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.
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I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
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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.
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I'm all over the place.
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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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I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.
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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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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
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Instant gratification is not soon enough.
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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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It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
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It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
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My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
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My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
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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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People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
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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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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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Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
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The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
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The work will stand, no matter what.
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There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
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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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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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