Mary Steenburgen Quotes

As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

Mary Steenburgen

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• I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Women
  • American

• I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Child
  • Acting

• The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Camera

• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Privilege

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Necessity

• I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Problem
  • Creative
  • Abilities

• When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Hard
  • Lines

• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Beautiful
  • Poetry
  • Enjoy

• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

  

  Mae West
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fire

• I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Look
  • Read
  • Tabloids

• I'm always on the court with my dad.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Court

• You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • You
  • Know
  • Television

• Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Cold

• He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Makeup

• The biggest misconception is that I'm only a documentary filmmaker, but in fact I have made many narrative shorts. My biggest inspirations are narrative films, and that's ultimately where I see myself going next.

  

  Alex Hammond
  • Films
  • Narrative
  • Inspirations

• I have had so many bad auditions.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Auditions

• My earliest thought, long before I was in high school, was just to go away, get out of my house, get out of my city. I went to Medford High School, but even in grade school and junior high, I fantasized about leaving.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • People
  • Great
  • Freedom

• I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

  

  Steve Carell
  • Relationships
  • Sides
  • Fault

• As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

  

  Mary Steenburgen