Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
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I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.
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I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.
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I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.
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New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.
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Wii on Nintendo is amazing.
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I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.
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If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving.
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Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.
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I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
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The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.
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I loved Westerns for different reasons as an adult. It is not only our only native brand of storytelling - the only one that's not influenced by Europeans and not something that's done better by the French - but I also love the sensuality of the Western. The sights, sounds, and smell of a Western are very exciting.
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The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.
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That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name.
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I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in.
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My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul.
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We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this for ourselves. We shouldn't be so quick to close doors.
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The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
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I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused.
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I feel like I'm attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they've got this whole thing figured out, but there's more going on inside their heads than you might imagine.
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At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
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My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
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I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.
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I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.