Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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'Last Man On Earth' is just one of the most original projects I've ever been involved with.
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Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.
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I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women.
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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.
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I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
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Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.
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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.
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What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.
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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.
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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.
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I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.
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I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.
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There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
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Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.
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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.
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I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
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It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.
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Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.
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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
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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.
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I like being part of a team.
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You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.
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I don't know how I could plan my career.
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Life is about surviving loss.