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" My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name. "
Mary Steenburgen
Me
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Nobody
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" I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old. "
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" There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those. "
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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 helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this. "
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" I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages. "
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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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" Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that. "
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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. "
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Never
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" I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom. "
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" I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978. "
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Got
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" I love writing music. "
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" When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better. "
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" I like being part of a team. "
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Team
" Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. "
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South
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" 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. "
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People
You
Want
" Essential oils are extremely important to me. "
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" 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. "
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Voice
" I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially. "
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" In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear. "
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" I learned not to care what other people think. "
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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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Things
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