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
When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
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.
The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.
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.
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Being an actor lets me be a million different things.
I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
I am thrilled and honored to be nominated, and also aghast that anybody could imagine that I could surpass the unsurpassable Katharine Hepburn in any category whatsoever. But it's lovely to even be mentioned in the same sentence.
loving women of a certain age in movies and in life.