Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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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 love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up.
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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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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
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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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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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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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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.
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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'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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There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
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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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I don't know how I could plan my career.
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I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.
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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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What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.
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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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I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.
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Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes.
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There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.
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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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I like being part of a team.