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" 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. "

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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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Meryl Streep

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Parenting

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

Meryl Streep

Sure

Never

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

Meryl Streep

Easy

Balance

" I think your self emerges more clearly over time. "

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

" The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become. "

" 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 remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. "

Meryl Streep

People

Way

" 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. "

" 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 strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially. "

" 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

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

Meryl Streep

Serious

Acting