Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Mary Steenburgen

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Essential oils are extremely important to me. "

Mary Steenburgen

" That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

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

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

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

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

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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.' "

Mary Steenburgen

" Writing is essentially an internal process. "

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

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women. "

Mary Steenburgen

" There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen