Mary Steenburgen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
-
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
-
I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
-
I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.
-
My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
-
I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
-
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
-
I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
-
Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now claims they are dead.
-
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
-
That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
-
I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
-
I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.
-
I concentrate on doing good projects.
-
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.
-
MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
-
I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.
-
Learn from my mistakes and you don't have to make them yourself.
-
Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.
-
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
-
Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.
-
One of the companies that we've invested in is called Facebook. In only two years, between 2009 and 2011, the information exchanged between people increased 28 times. And that cannot be explained by new people joining Facebook.
-
I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.
