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Meryl Streep
June 22, 1949 -
Nationality: American
Category: Actress
Subcategory: American Actress

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

   

My family really does come first. It always did and always will.

   

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.

   

My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.

   

Instant gratification is not soon enough.

   

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

   

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

   

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

   

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.

   

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.

   

The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

   

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

   

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.

   

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

   

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

   

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

   

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

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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