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" My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas. "

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" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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Mind

Everyone

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

" 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. "

" My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name. "

Mary Steenburgen

Name

Nobody

" I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out. "

" There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy. "

" I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative. "

" I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role. "

Mary Steenburgen

Children

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

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

" 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. "

" I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young. "

" Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling. "

" I like being part of a team. "

Mary Steenburgen

Being

Team

" Life is about surviving loss. "

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

Mary Steenburgen

People

Underestimate

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

" I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material. "

" 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. "

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

" I have never had any success in planning my life, really. "