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" I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

" I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

Mary Steenburgen

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

" I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts. "

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

" We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen. "

" 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. "

" When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing. "

" 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. "

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

" There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

" 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 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. "

" Life is about surviving loss. "

" 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. "

" I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages. "

Mary Steenburgen

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" Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes. "

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

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

" I'm a very musical person. "

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