QUOTES by Meryl Streep
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When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.
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I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.
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I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it.
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Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot.
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People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.
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I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.
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I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.
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Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
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America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
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The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
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We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.
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People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
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All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
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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.
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Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.
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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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I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
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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.
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I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.
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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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I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
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For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
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Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
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It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.
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Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word.
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I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.
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I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.
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I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.
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Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
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I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.
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I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally.
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