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" I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material. "
Mary Steenburgen
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" I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom. "
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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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" I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role. "
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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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" Life is about surviving loss. "
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" In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear. "
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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. "
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" I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could. "
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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'm a very musical person. "
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" That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name. "
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" I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused. "
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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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" I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from. "
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" At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.' "
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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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" '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. "
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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 love to play horrible, evil, mean people. "
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" 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. "
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" Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work. "
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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. "
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" I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make. "
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" I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them. "
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" 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. "
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" Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance. "
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