Meryl Streep

Actress

1949-06-22

American actress widely recognized for range, longevity, and record-setting Academy Award nominations. She has received multiple Oscars and major honors across film and stage work. Her notable films include Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, and The Devil Wears Prada.

Quotes by Meryl Streep

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
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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.
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I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
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I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
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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.
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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
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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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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
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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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My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
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It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.
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You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.
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There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
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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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All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
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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.
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I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
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Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
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