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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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

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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. "

" 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

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

Meryl Streep

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

Meryl Streep

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" 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. "

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

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

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