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Meg Ryan Biography

Meg Ryan (born Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra; November 19, 1961) is an American actress, director, and producer. Ryan began her acting career in 1981 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982. Subsequently, she began to appear in supporting roles in films during the mid-1980s, achieving recognition in independent films such as Promised Land (1988) before her performance in the Rob Reiner-directed romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally... (1989) brought her widespread attention and her first Golden Globe nomination.

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Even in the first world, expectations are not as high for women as they are for men. We get that message subtly, but in the third world, it isn't subtle. Girls are isolated and encouraged not to talk to one another.

Encouraged, Expectations, Girl, Men, Subtle

Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.

Buying, Childhood, Chimney, Magazines, Maybe, Song

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

Done, Essentially, Film, Finding, Voice, Women

It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

Ems, Intuition, Intuitive, Triumphant, Use, Wake Up

The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis
Mike Tyson fight.

Date, Fight, Fighting, Fun, Lennox, Would Be

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

Fighting, Fights, Meetings, Think, Think Big, Thinking

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

Thinking, Chivalry, Heard, Flue, Bad

Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.

Call, Fit, Nice, Socialized, Women

I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

Broken, Brutal, Easily, House, Love, Might

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

Acting, Define, Solely

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Good Life, Existential Angst, Complaining, Good, Nothing, Complain

If you empower women, you can change the world.

Change, Empower, Empowering, Ifs, Women, World

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

Down, Five, Made, Movies, Who Cares, Years

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

Brings, Down, People, Same, Thing

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

Change, Children, Difference, Like, Mother, People

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Guide, Guides, I Can, Persons, Thought, Turned

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

Able, Fundamentals, Mother, Motherhood, Takes, Though

My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

Everybody, Father, People, Total, World

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

Distracted, Hectic, Life Is, Loud, Madness, Thinking

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

Change, Mean, People, Good, Happened

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