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" In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear. "

Mary Steenburgen

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" 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. "

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

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" Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that. "

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

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" We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women. "

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