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" There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy. "
Mary Steenburgen
Freedom
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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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" When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself. "
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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'm a chameleon when it comes to languages. "
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" Wii on Nintendo is amazing. "
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" You don't get to make Westerns every day. "
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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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" I love to play horrible, evil, mean people. "
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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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" I learned not to care what other people think. "
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" The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them. "
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" Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern. "
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" I have never had any success in planning my life, really. "
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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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" It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks. "
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" I love writing music. "
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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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" 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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" I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen. "
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" What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn. "
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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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" There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project. "
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" 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. "
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" When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing. "
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