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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I’m not sure that I’m that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Meryl Streep

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
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Heart Secret Simple
Empathy is at the heart of the actor’s art.
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Acting Art Empathy
Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.
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Difficult Jumpsuit Men
Fear focuses the mind.
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Fear Focus Mind
The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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Idea People Sometimes
All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,…that’s the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn’t filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?
MERYL STREEP

Heart Inspiration Think
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
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Fun Most Seem Work
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
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Happiness Success Way
People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?
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Expectation People Strong Women
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I’m not sure that I’m that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.
MERYL STREEP

Model People Role Success
Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple – love, sex and food!
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Food Love Sex Simple
I didn’t go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
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Math School Teacher
You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you’ve lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.
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Day Each Get Older People
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won’t even try.
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Character Screen Try
I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that ‘drug’ and go along with that.
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Fashion Hair Think
What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.
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Life Stay Strong Success

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I’m not sure that I’m that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I’m not sure that I’m that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

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