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Mary Steenburgen

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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'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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

" I don't know how I could plan my career. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" 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 grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Life is about surviving loss. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business. "

Mary Steenburgen

" There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I'm a very musical person. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" '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

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

Mary Steenburgen

" I feel like I'm attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they've got this whole thing figured out, but there's more going on inside their heads than you might imagine. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I'm a late bloomer. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen