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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. "
Mary Steenburgen
Life
Mad
Real Life
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" Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. "
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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 wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect. "
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" I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts. "
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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 don't know how I could plan my career. "
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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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" 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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You
Time
" There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl. "
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Than
Skin
" Life is about surviving loss. "
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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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Me
Underestimate
" My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas. "
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World
Family
" Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film. "
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Who
Me
" 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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Point
Life
" 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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Think
Place
" Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes. "
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House
Wild
White
" There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too. "
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" Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance. "
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Date
Dance
" 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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Thought
Think
" 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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Fear
" I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978. "
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Got
" I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially. "
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Nothing
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" 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. "
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Never
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" I'm a late bloomer. "
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Late
" 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. "
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" I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me. "
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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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" 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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" 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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