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 curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever.
I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
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.
You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
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.
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 get nervous the more time I have to think about something so I deliberately don't give myself too much time between jobs. I take a big break and then I start working again usually.
First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me,
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.