Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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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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There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.
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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 want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.
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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'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.
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Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.
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I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.
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It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.
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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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I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.
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'Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.
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I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.
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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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My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.
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Writing is essentially an internal process.
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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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There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.
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The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS.
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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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There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.
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'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.
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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 don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.