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Writing is essentially an internal process.
Mary Steenburgen -
My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.
Mary Steenburgen
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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.
Mary Steenburgen -
I like being part of a team.
Mary Steenburgen -
I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
Mary Steenburgen -
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.
Mary Steenburgen -
I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.
Mary Steenburgen -
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.
Mary Steenburgen
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I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.
Mary Steenburgen -
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.
Mary Steenburgen -
I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.
Mary Steenburgen -
I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.
Mary Steenburgen -
I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.
Mary Steenburgen -
'Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.
Mary Steenburgen
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I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.
Mary Steenburgen -
There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.
Mary Steenburgen -
I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.
Mary Steenburgen -
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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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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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.
Mary Steenburgen
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'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.
Mary Steenburgen -
There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.
Mary Steenburgen -
We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
Mary Steenburgen -
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.
Mary Steenburgen