Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film. She is widely regarded as one of the most talented and respected movie actors of the modern era.
Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, and her screen debut came in the made-for-television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with Julia. Both critical and commercial success came soon with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first win. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Sophie's Choice (1982).
Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, winning two, and 25 Golden Globe nominations, winning seven, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award. Her work has also earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, four New York Film Critics Circle Awards, five Grammy Award nominations, a BAFTA award, an Australian Film Institute Award, and a Tony Award nomination.
“No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man…' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.”
“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.”
“Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.”
“I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.”
“You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.”
“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.”
“I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.”
“You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”
“I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.”
“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”
“I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.”
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”
“I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?”
“It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.”