12 Inspiring Quotes By Academy Award Winner Baby Boomer Meryl Streep

Boomer54 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:53:44 +0000

“America doesn’t reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.”

“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”

“Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I’m putting out in the world, is because of my children.”

“Expensive clothes are a waste of money.”

“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.”

“I think your self emerges more clearly over time.”

“I want to feel my life while I’m in it.”

“Instant gratification is not soon enough.”

“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.”

“It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.”

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

“You just have to keep on doing what you do. It’s the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.”

~Meryl Streep

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Mary Louise Streep (Born June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey). Considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 15 times, and has won it twice. Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, winning two, and 25 Golden Globe nominations, winning seven, more nominations than any other actor in the history of either award.

Trivia: Learned to play the violin, by practicing 6 hours a day for 8 weeks, for her role in Music of the Heart (1999). Has a fear of helicopters.

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