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Meryl Streep, born on June 22, 1949, is an internationally renowned actress from the United States. Known for her exceptional acting skills and versatile character portrayals, she has been nominated for multiple Academy Awards and won the Best Actress for her role in 'Kramer vs. Kramer' in 1980. Streep's career spans various mediums, including film, theater, and television, with her work covering a wide range of topics from classic literature adaptations to contemporary social issues.

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“Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time”

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“Most of the great practitioners of the art of acting know exactly what they're doing; even in the best, most successful moments, when they let go of the awareness of what they are doing, they still, somewhere deep inside their body, know what they're doing. There is a craft.”

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“Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Actors Levels Acting Judging Communication Concerned

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“Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.”

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“Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.”

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“While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.”

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“Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.”

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“One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.”

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“Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.”

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“I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.”

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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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“I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.”

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“Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”

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“I need to go where people are serious about acting.”

People Needs Acting Serious

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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'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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“I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.”

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“My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.”

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“All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.”

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“I think your self emerges more clearly over time.”

Thinking Self Acting

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“The work will stand, no matter what.”

Matter Acting No Matter What

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“Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.”

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“Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.”

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

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Born: June 22, 1949
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 263

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