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 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,
It's sort of my fun to sing along with records and imitate people who are on the telephone that have different ways of speaking.
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
People have to make their own decisions about their lives.
People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.
I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.
I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.
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.
People will say to me, 'You've played so many strong women' and I'll say, 'Have you ever said to a man, 'You've played so many strong men?' No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can't we have that expectation about women?