Mary Steenburgen Quotes
The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS.
Quotes to Explore
-
Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
-
I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
-
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
-
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
-
To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
-
For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
-
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
-
I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
-
After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
-
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
-
I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
-
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
-
We've never been anti-Semitic.
-
The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
-
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
-
Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
-
Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
-
It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
-
It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.
-
We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
-
I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
-
I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.
-
God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
-
The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS.
