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" I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

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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 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. "

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

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" '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 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. "

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" I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself. "

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" I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about. "

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" If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving. "

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" I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in. "

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" I have hundreds of songs. "

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" 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. "

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" I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it. "

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