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
Meryl Streep quotes about
My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!
(They are) improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.
I love food and I love sex.
I love Chinese movies and don't get enough of them in the United States and that's why people hold film festivals to make others aware of films in other countries,
I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me, "You know, when I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep they were so excited...all ze women in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you."
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.
I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.