Meryl Streep

Notable Quotes



The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

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I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.

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You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.

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How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

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For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.

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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

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I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

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I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

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There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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