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Meryl Streep

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

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Donna Grant

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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Donna Grant

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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Donna Grant

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

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Donna Grant

"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."

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Donna Grant

"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."

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Donna Grant

"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."

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Donna Grant

"You have to do real acting, not just do a voice."

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Donna Grant

"It was always part of the plan to move into acting."

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Donna Grant

"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."

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Donna Grant

"Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium."

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Meryl Streep
"I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life."

Life

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Meryl Streep
"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."

Feelings

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Meryl Streep
"Expensive clothes are a waste of money."

Money

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Meryl Streep
"I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence."

Home

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Meryl Streep
"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other."

Love

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Meryl Streep
"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying."

Attention

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Meryl Streep
"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."

People

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Meryl Streep
"Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men."

Men

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Meryl Streep
"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."

People

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Meryl Streep
"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."

Mother

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