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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. "

Meryl Streep

I Can

Right

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Meryl Streep

Sure

Never

" I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. "

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

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

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

" I'm all over the place. "

Meryl Streep

Place

Over

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "

" 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

Time

Work

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

" Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it. "

" 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. "

" People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. "