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" The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. "
Meryl Streep
Together
Random
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" All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. "
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" Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. "
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" Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. "
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" My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. "
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" What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace. "
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" It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. "
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" 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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" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "
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" People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. "
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" I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. "
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" 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. "
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" Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. "
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Out
" For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. "
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Character
Me
" There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. "
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" 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. "
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" I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really. "
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" Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored. "
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" 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. "
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Believe
Best
" 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. "
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" I need to go where people are serious about acting. "
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" There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. "
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" Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living. "
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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. "
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" I'm all over the place. "
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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. "
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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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