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.
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.
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
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.
(They are) improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
This creation is not really like his show. It is an imagined last show, and so it's in the context of being taken over by a radio conglomerate, which is happening to a lot of radio shows at home.
Thank God I couldn't see anything out there.
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.
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,