Meryl Streep Quotes

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• Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.
• Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
• I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
• I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
• I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
• Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only…
• It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for…
• They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too…
• Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.
• Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics,
• 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.
• 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…
• My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in…
• As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.
• I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.
• I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional…
• My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from…
• I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as…
• 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,…
• The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if…

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