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" Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that. "
Mary Steenburgen
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life. "
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" As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions. "
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" If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that. "
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" There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better. "
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" I started in improv and went into different kinds of things. "
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" My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling. "
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" The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways. "
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" There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old. "
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" I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you. "
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" Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless. "
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" When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself. "
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Life
" I have never had any success in planning my life, really. "
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" Essential oils are extremely important to me. "
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" As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too. "
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" What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn. "
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" I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23. "
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" I'm a late bloomer. "
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" 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. "
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" I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live. "
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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 did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused. "
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" I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially. "
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" I was excited to turn 60. "
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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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