Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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I don't know how I could plan my career.
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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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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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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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There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.
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'Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.
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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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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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There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.
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'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.
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Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
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I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.
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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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I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.
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What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.
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We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
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I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
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Writing is essentially an internal process.
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I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.
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Life is about surviving loss.
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Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.
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I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.
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I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.
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If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.