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" That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name. "
Mary Steenburgen
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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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" 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.' "
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" There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl. "
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" 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. "
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" I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out. "
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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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