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" 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. "

Meryl Streep

Humanity

Africa

People

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" There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. "

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference. "

" The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. "

Meryl Streep

Pets

Parenting

" Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love. "

" 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

Where

Still

" I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are. "

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

" 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. "

Meryl Streep

Feel

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

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

" You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try. "

Meryl Streep

Try

You

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older. "

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

" I think your self emerges more clearly over 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? "

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

" Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor. "

Meryl Streep

Acting

Mother

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

" I'm all over the place. "

Meryl Streep

Place

Over

" 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. "