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" I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially. "
Mary Steenburgen
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself. "
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" I'm a very musical person. "
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" I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life. "
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" There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project. "
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" '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. "
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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. "
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" 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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" Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. "
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" I started in improv and went into different kinds of things. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy. "
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" As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions. "
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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 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 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 take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles. "
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" I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody. "
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" Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that. "
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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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