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
To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.
I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Being an actor lets me be a million different things.
I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
I can't stand most things that I see.
I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.