Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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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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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.
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If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.
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I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.
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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 want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.
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I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.
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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.
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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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Life is about surviving loss.
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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 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 decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
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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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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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Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes.
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I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.
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When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.
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I like being part of a team.
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As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.
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I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.
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I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.
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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.