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- Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- This life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes you just need to cling to the person that you can claw your way out of the dark with.
- Chris Dingess, Being Human, Wouldn't It Be Nice (If We Were Human), 2011
- I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
- When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.
- Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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