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All Quotes by author - Meryl Streep

" Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. "

" All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. "

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

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

" Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done. "

" 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. "

" Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored. "

" Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living. "

" Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. "

" Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. "

" 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. "

" Expensive clothes are a waste of money. "

" For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. "

" Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now. "

" Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. "

" 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? "

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

" I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. "

" I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance. "

" I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. "

" 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. "

" I can't stand most things that I see. "

" I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life. "

" 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. "

" If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. "

" 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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