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" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

" I started in improv and went into different kinds of things. "

" There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old. "

" I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it. "

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

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

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

" I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles. "

" I was excited to turn 60. "

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" I'm a late bloomer. "

" 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. "

" I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts. "

" Life is about surviving loss. "

" If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 learned not to care what other people think. "

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

" 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. "