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About Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress of theater, film and television.

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β€œI live simply. I don't buy a lot of fashion!”
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β€œI don't really. In our business, you're not kicked out necessarily …”
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β€œHollywood to me is what it is to you. It's something other than what I am. I sit outside it.”
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β€œNo! But they were here [in Los Angeles]. Here they were surprised, because it was difficult to finance, the film. A lot of the executives would say, 'I just don't get it.'”
β€œWell, aren't we all grateful to be alive? I just know lots of people … at my age, I've lost a lot of people in my life and I'm very grateful to be here. That's what I mean.”

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Meryl Streep on Empathy

β€œThe great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”
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Gillian Anderson on Meryl Streep

β€œOne of my only role models as a young woman was Meryl Streep and, specifically, her character in Out of Africa. I would watch the movie whenever I needed inspiration because Ms. Streep so brilliantly portrayed an incredibly courageous woman who stands alone to save her plantation. Her performance and the strength of her character were tangible examples of how I wanted to be in the world, and I soaked it in and learned from her experience.”
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Nick Britten on Meryl Streep

β€œStreep, who was born in New Jersey, is known to have historic family ties to Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.”

Michael Cimino on Meryl Streep

β€œMeryl Streep could obviously have made it to the screen on looks alone. The camera embraces her. Lucky camera. Many women would kill for her slender, fashion-model figure, for that ash-blond hair, oval face, porcelain skin and those high, exquisite cheekbones. Her eyes mirror intelligence; their pale blue sparkle demands a new adjective: 'merulean]. Only a slight bump down the plane of her long, patrician nose redeems her profile from perfection.”

Viola Davis on Meryl Streep

β€œEven [being] in a rehearsal period, with Meryl Streep watching, is a behind-tightening experience.”
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Meryl Streep

β€œHer roots go back to England: We traced her back to her eighth grand-grandfather born in England in 1620. In 1645, he shows up in Providence, Rhode Island, as one of the founding fathers of Rhode Island.”
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β€œI no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.”

About Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress of theater, film and television.