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American actress

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No one realizes how much fun Meryl Streep is. She's an awesome broad, and I think she's an extraordinary actor, but she's also a really free, fun human being.

— Sandra Bullock on Meryl Streep / March 08, 2010

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Since finishing my last film I feel the need to stop for a moment and breathe, because I've worked so very hard in the last two and a half years. I'd usually make one film a year, maybe two, then two years would go by with no films and now I've just made seven back to back. Sometimes if you give that much you have to settle it down and let the field go fallow for one year, like the farmers do.

— Meryl Streep wants to take a break / March 07, 2010

I'm not a producer - I just take interesting things that have come along.

— Meryl Streep / March 07, 2010

I feel very privileged, very lucky and very happy, though I don't think that every film I've ever done is brilliant,

— Meryl Streep / March 07, 2010

I loved it, but I thought it was frivolous. I remember thinking, 'OK this is stupid. Oh yeah, you're going to be an actress, sure. I'm going to do something serious with my life. I'm going to be an environmental lawyer'. Then I slept through the law school admission test, so I took it as a sign from heaven to stay in drama school.

— Meryl Streep wanted to become a lawyer / March 04, 2010

What you look like, and how you seem, is all young actors consume themselves with instead of their characters. It makes it so much harder to be fresh each time.

— Meryl Streep saying modern actors are too self aware / March 04, 2010

The world was different when I was a young actress. These days there's so much scrutiny, everyone's so self aware, and that self consciousness is the thing that kills your acting ability.

— Meryl Streep saying modern actors are too self aware / March 04, 2010

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