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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. "

Meryl Streep

People

Women

Value

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. "

" 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 believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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