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" I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first. "

Mary Steenburgen

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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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" My son, he has a film group, a bunch of film nerds that sit around and screen movies, and when they had Mary Steenburgen Night, the two movies they screened were 'Melvin And Howard' and 'Clifford.' "

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" I started in improv and went into different kinds of things. "

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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. "

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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 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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" It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star. "

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" I'm a very musical person. "

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" It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has. "

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

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" I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages. "

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" We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" You don't get to make Westerns every day. "

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" I'm a late bloomer. "

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" If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can. "

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" When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself. "

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" If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that. "

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" I love to play horrible, evil, mean people. "

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" There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old. "

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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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" I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places. "

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" The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS. "

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" What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn. "

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