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
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.
Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is somebody with some huge, weird, terrible problem, some great jokes.
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
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,
I feel really proud of the movie and I think its properly subversive and its very human. I think its properly subversive and very human. It relies on humor and music to communicate what's being lost...For me it was really great to locate something true about America, something that cuts across all levels of sophistication and humanity, about who we are as Americans, and that's why I loved being in it.
Now, to see it all together is really quite, quite extraordinary. It's a spectacular museum. I just think Joe (Thompson) has done an amazing job. It's such an inspiring place here, really. It makes you remember why you're alive.
They obviously feel that, to emerge from the pack, they need to distinguish themselves by being more willing to do that than anyone else. It's not about the roles they aspire to -- it's that they have to sexualize themselves.