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" 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

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" I love writing music. "

" I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have never had any success in planning my life, really. "

" I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst. "

" I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing. "

" I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this. "

" I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher. "

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

" I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially. "

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

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

" I was excited to turn 60. "

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" I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it. "

" I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up. "

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" If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "