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" 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. "

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" I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible. "

Mary Steenburgen

Best

Weird

Test

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

Mary Steenburgen

Languages

Chameleon

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first. "

" 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. "

" I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom. "

" I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done. "

Mary Steenburgen

Better

Camera

" I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh. "

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

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

" I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from. "

" That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name. "

" 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 have hundreds of songs. "

Mary Steenburgen

Songs

Hundreds