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I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.
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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.
Mary Steenburgen
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I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.
Mary Steenburgen -
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.
Mary Steenburgen -
'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.
Mary Steenburgen -
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.
Mary Steenburgen -
When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.
Mary Steenburgen -
I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
Mary Steenburgen
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I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.
Mary Steenburgen -
I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
Mary Steenburgen -
I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.
Mary Steenburgen -
I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.
Mary Steenburgen -
You don't get to make Westerns every day.
Mary Steenburgen -
I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.
Mary Steenburgen
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I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up.
Mary Steenburgen -
I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.
Mary Steenburgen -
My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
Mary Steenburgen -
Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.
Mary Steenburgen -
Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.
Mary Steenburgen -
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
Mary Steenburgen
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I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.
Mary Steenburgen -
We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.
Mary Steenburgen -
1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.
Mary Steenburgen -
I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.
Mary Steenburgen