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

Mary Steenburgen

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative. "

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

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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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" There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster. "

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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've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it. "

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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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" The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof. "

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