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
I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
~When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.~
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.
The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
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.
I really worked very hard to bring my voice back because I used to have a good voice, and to try to do my exercises that I remember from Yale and all the things in the olden days, clearing your sinuses and all that.
I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.
You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters.