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" 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. "

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" I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it. "

Meryl Streep

Who

You

People

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Meryl Streep

Every Day

Day

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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

" 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 we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it. "

" 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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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

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

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

" I need to go where people are serious about acting. "

Meryl Streep

Serious

Acting

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

" Expensive clothes are a waste of money. "

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

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

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