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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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" 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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" 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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" Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance. "

" 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. "

" '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 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. "

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

" 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 used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little. "

" I'm a very musical person. "

" Wii on Nintendo is amazing. "

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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.' "

" I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar. "

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" Writing is essentially an internal process. "

" I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it. "

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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" Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.' "

" I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks. "

" 1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that. "

" Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up. "

" My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul. "

" 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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" New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people. "

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