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" 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. "

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" I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion. "

Meryl Streep

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Hope

Best

" I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. "

" Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. "

" 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

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" 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. "

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

" I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it. "

" 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. "

" It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper. "

" I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. "

" 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. "

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

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

Meryl Streep

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You

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

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

" 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. "

" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "

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

" The work will stand, no matter what. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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