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" Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody. "

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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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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New York

Feel

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher. "

" There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster. "

" 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. "

" For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone. "

" Essential oils are extremely important to me. "

Mary Steenburgen

Important

Essential

" 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. "

" The part in 'Philadelphia' where I represent the law firm that's firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn't sympathetic to someone with AIDS. "

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

Mary Steenburgen

Mother

Popcorn

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

" 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. "

" 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 panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially. "

" 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. "

" I feel like I'm attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they've got this whole thing figured out, but there's more going on inside their heads than you might imagine. "

" 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. "

" I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live. "

Mary Steenburgen

People

Underestimate

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I love writing music. "

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

" I like being part of a team. "

Mary Steenburgen

Being

Team

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

Mary Steenburgen

Languages

Chameleon

" I was excited to turn 60. "

Mary Steenburgen

Turn

Excited

" I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old. "