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Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep

American Actress

Born: Jun 22, 1949

Good Life Me People Work You

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The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become. Meryl Streep

You Business Become More Humbled

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. Meryl Streep

Great Few Enough Some Get Scripts Them Lucky Loads

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. Meryl Streep

Find Perfect Attention Lighting Annoying Terribly

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. Meryl Streep

Old Were Very Going Who

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. Meryl Streep

Character Confidence Beauty Young Character Actress Like Felt Still Any Actress

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. Meryl Streep

You Perception First Meet Sees Argue Industry How Public Them

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

Life Good Enough Good Life Very Deprived Lucky

I think your self emerges more clearly over time. Meryl Streep

Time Think Emerges More Self Clearly Over Your

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

Never Sure

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. Meryl Streep

Work Time Good Me Business Extremely Has-Been Take Because Been Undisciplined Lot Off Person Really Show Show Business

The work will stand, no matter what. Meryl Streep

Work Matter Will Stand

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. Meryl Streep

Space Earth Like Improbable Suspended Things

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. Meryl Streep

Too Earth See Well Far Round

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

Life Age People Reward Day-To-Day Day-To-Day Life Performance America Either

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really. Meryl Streep

Remember Thought Would Would-Be Around Hovering Movie Really Each Last

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. Meryl Streep

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor. Meryl Streep

Natural Think Performer Actor

I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine. Meryl Streep

Me Lie Mine Know Still Sources Where Means

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. Meryl Streep

Women People Better Value Half Our Table Parent Something Studios Wrong Feel Participants Look Because Around Tastes Different Decision-Making Boards Might Agencies Including Level

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. Meryl Streep

Word Thompson Relish Writer Nobody Like She Real

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength? Meryl Streep

Strength Fight Grace Fire Our Find Some Taken Over Know Hillary Hillary Clinton She Female Does How Years Clinton Families Get Any Where Children Want Grit Her

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