Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.
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I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.
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'Last Man On Earth,' I have to say, is a love for me. I mean, a true passion. To people who haven't watched it or who've watched a little and thought, 'Ah, I don't know where this is going,' or whatever, I urge them to check it out again.
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There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.
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I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.
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Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.
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I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
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I have hundreds of songs.
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I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.
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I love writing music.
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For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.
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I have never had any success in planning my life, really.
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I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.
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When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself.
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Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.
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I'm a late bloomer.
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I was excited to turn 60.
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I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof.
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In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.
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It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.
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A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.
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My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.
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I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.
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'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.