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" As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions. "

Mary Steenburgen

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" I loved Westerns for different reasons as an adult. It is not only our only native brand of storytelling - the only one that's not influenced by Europeans and not something that's done better by the French - but I also love the sensuality of the Western. The sights, sounds, and smell of a Western are very exciting. "

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" There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done. "

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" I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible. "

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" Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes. "

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

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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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" 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 studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher. "

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" Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless. "

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

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" I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in. "

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" I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen. "

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" I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern. "

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