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

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

   

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

   

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

   

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

   

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

   

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

   

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 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.

   

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

   

I'm all over the place.

   

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

   

The work will stand, no matter what.

   

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.

   

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

   

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.

   

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

   

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

   

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

   

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

   

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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