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" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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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. "

" Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal. "

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

" I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof. "

" '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

Love

Man

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

" It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star. "

" Wii on Nintendo is amazing. "

Mary Steenburgen

Nintendo

Amazing

" 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. "

" When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself. "

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

" 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

Children

" You don't get to make Westerns every day. "

" What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn. "

Mary Steenburgen

Mother

Popcorn

" 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've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it. "

" I have hundreds of songs. "

Mary Steenburgen

Songs

Hundreds

" As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions. "

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

" Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are. "

" I learned not to care what other people think. "

" I don't know how I could plan my career. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "