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Meryl Streep


American
June 22, 1949
Actress
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There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.


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I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance.


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I think your self emerges more clearly over time.


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The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.


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You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.


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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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For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.


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What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.


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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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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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Tags: Beauty Like Any
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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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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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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.
Meryl Streep
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'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.
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I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.
Meryl Streep
Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.
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It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.
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I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.
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