Meryl Streep (b.1949,) fully Mary Louise Streep, is one of Hollywood’s most successful actors. She has been nominated for more Academy Awards than any other actor.
Streep’s prominent movies include Kramer vs. Kramer (1980,) The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981,) Sophie’s Choice (1982,) Out of Africa (1986,) The Hours (2002,) The Devil Wears Prada (2006,) and The Iron Lady (2011.)
Streep’s recent work includes The Hours (2002,) The Manchurian Candidate (2004,) A Prairie Home Companion (2006,) Julie & Julia (2009,) and The Post (2017.)
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You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
—Meryl Streep
Topics: Self-reliance, Independence
I do not like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I have had children who are in school.
—Meryl Streep
The work will stand, no matter what.
—Meryl Streep
Topics: Work
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
—Meryl Streep
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
—Meryl Streep
Topics: Mothers
Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.
—Meryl Streep
Topics: Teachers
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
—Meryl Streep
Topics: Confidence, Self-reliance
It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.
—Meryl Streep
Topics: Eating, Health
You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
—Meryl Streep
Topics: Audiences
All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
—Meryl Streep
Topics: Attention
Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.
—Meryl Streep
Topics: Doing Your Best
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