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.
MERYL STREEPMy 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.
More Meryl Streep Quotes
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The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
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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?
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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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If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won’t even try.
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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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What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength.
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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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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
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The best thing about acting is when you’re playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That’s when you know you’ve been succeeded at what you’ve worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.
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The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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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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Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple – love, sex and food!
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Empathy is at the heart of the actor’s art.
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That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
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Fear focuses the mind.
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