American - Actress | June 22, 1949 -
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Meryl Streep
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
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Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.
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You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.
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Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
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I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
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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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Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.
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I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.
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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.
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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.
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