Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streepis an American actress. Cited in the media as the "best actress of her generation", Streep is particularly known for her versatility in her roles, transformation into the characters she plays, and her accent adaptation. She made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville in 1971, and went on to receive a 1976 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play for A Memory of Two Mondays/27 Wagons Full of Cotton. She made...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 June 1949
CitySummit, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
Guard your good mood.
I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.
I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.
If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.
Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.