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On every film, the clothes are...

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

This is your time and it feels...

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

You don't have to be famous. Y...

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

True freedom is understanding ...

True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

What's worse than brutality th...

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

I never give any character I p...

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

If everybody that had two cars...

If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

I like who I am now. Other peo...

I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

I don't really talk about my p...

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

Everything that truly makes us...

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

So it's not a thing that's a s...

So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

And she [Margaret Thatcher] al...

And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting quite quietly and making a point in a way that you don't really know that this point is going to be made through several examples, and there will be not be a break in the speaking voice at any point.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

Yeah, I did need a lot of brea...

Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

In other characters, it's driv...

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

So yeah, when I was a kid, whe...

So yeah, 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.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

I'm older. There's some sort o...

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

I'm all over the place....

I'm all over the place.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

We are who we're going to be w...

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.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

I have four to five months, to...

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

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

I'm never so sure as I was in ...

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

Meryl Streep 312 quotes

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