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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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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Mary Steenburgen

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" Writing is essentially an internal process. "

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

" Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world. "

" 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. "

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

" I love writing music. "

" 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. "

" I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young. "

" '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

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" Essential oils are extremely important to me. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

" I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them. "

" There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl. "

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

" I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice. "

" I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you. "

" 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. "

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