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" 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. "

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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. "

Meryl Streep

High School

Think

Song

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

" I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. "

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

Meryl Streep

Sure

Never

" The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed. "

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

" I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.' "

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

" 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. "

" Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. "

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

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

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

" The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves. "

" Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. "

" Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. "

" 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. "

" It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. "

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

Meryl Streep

Easy

Balance

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

" The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is. "

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

" 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. "

" What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace. "

" There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. "

" 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. "

" You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. "