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" A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with. "

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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. "

Mary Steenburgen

World

Teachers

Reading

" I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you. "

" For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone. "

" I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody. "

" The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways. "

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

People

Acting

" Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance. "

" There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very musical person. "

" 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. "

" 'Last Man On Earth,' I have to say, is a love for me. I mean, a true passion. To people who haven't watched it or who've watched a little and thought, 'Ah, I don't know where this is going,' or whatever, I urge them to check it out again. "

Mary Steenburgen

Love

Man

" 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. "

" I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little. "

" Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. "

" My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events. "

" I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts. "

" There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy. "

" I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up. "

Mary Steenburgen

Love

Percent

" I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material. "

" I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh. "

" There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project. "

Mary Steenburgen

Connect

Project

" Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal. "

" Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are. "

" 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. "

" I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out. "

" 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. "

" My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name. "

Mary Steenburgen

Name

Nobody

" I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks. "