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

—Meryl Streep

About Meryl Streep

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Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Widely regarded by peers and critics as the greatest actress of her generation, and by many with the affectionate epitaph "Greatest of All Time", she is recognized as one of the most versatile performers in cinema, noted for...

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We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

—Meryl Streep

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

—Meryl Streep

If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

—Meryl Streep

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

—Meryl Streep

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.

—Meryl Streep

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Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

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Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

—George Burns

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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

—Katharine Hepburn

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