Today I saw the new movie, "Julie and Julia". Meryl Streep plays (beautifully) the role of Julia Childs.

Charlie Rose interviewed Meryl on his show last Friday and I copied the following from a transcript of that program. What she says about actors interested me greatly.

I have been trying to download the tape of his show but for some reason that program isn't available. You can try it by clicking on: https://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10541

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CHARLIE ROSE: How are actors different than the rest of us?

MERYL STREEP: Well, they live a Zen life. It’s everything -- it’s
very uncertain. And all lives are uncertain. But actors know it. And
actor -- because you’re unemployed so often. And you live so intensely in
the moments that you are working. That when you come back to earth and
look around, and you know, that balloon has gone. And there’s no other one
on the horizon. So you live where you are. I think actors live exactly
where they are. The really good ones. And that’s why they seem kind of
crazy.

CHARLIE ROSE: But we all should be there. Isn’t that where we should
all want to be?

MERYL STREEP: But they really -- yes, I think so. I think it is an
authentic where we live, yes.

Wow, what am I talking about?

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