Meryl Streep Quotes - Page 2

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• Fear focuses the mind.

  Meryl Streep

  Mind

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• I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Play, Giving

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• If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

  Meryl Streep

  Brain, Use, Obliged

  Interview with Wendy Wasserstein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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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.

  Meryl Streep

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

  Meryl Streep

  Marriage, Garden, Partners

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• The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world.

  Meryl Streep

  Fighting, World, Feels

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Husband, Joy

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

  Meryl Streep

  Life, Inspire, Want

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• There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

  Meryl Streep

  Going For It, Liberation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.

  Meryl Streep

  Keys, Insecurity, Actors

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• Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

  Meryl Streep

  Different, Actors, Let Me

  Source: collider.com

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• I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

  Meryl Streep

  Life, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.

  Meryl Streep

  Soul, Actors, Taught

  Meryl Streep's Commencement Address at Barnard College in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?

  Meryl Streep

  Strong Women, Expectations, People

  "This is what happens when Michelle Obama interviews Meryl Streep". www.goodhousekeeping.co.za.

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

  Meryl Streep

  Jobs, Acting, Emotion

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• People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.

  Meryl Streep

  Being Yourself, People, Want

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.

  Meryl Streep

  Husband, Children, Choices

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.

  Meryl Streep

  Girl, Hate, Men

  "Meryl Streep's Advice to Women: Don't Worry So Much About Your Weight" By Natalie Matthews, www.elle.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking, Personality, Birth

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• I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking, Light, Role Models

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• 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.

  Meryl Streep

  Want, Easier, Who You Are

  "Critic's Notebook: Is Meryl Streep Coasting With Roles Like 'Florence Foster Jenkins'?" by Sheri Linden FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME PRINT, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 13, 2016.

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• I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

  Meryl Streep

  Thinking, Self, Acting

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• 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 character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

  Meryl Streep

  Pain, Character, Made Up Stories

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• Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time

  Meryl Streep

  Fun, Acting, Way

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• I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

  Meryl Streep

  Believe, Opposites, People

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