Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too. "

Mary Steenburgen

Related Quotes:

" 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

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I'm a very musical person. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Life is about surviving loss. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody. "

Mary Steenburgen

" We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this for ourselves. We shouldn't be so quick to close doors. "

Mary Steenburgen

" I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978. "

Mary Steenburgen

" That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

" It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks. "

Mary Steenburgen

" 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. "

Mary Steenburgen

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

Mary Steenburgen

" It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has. "

Mary Steenburgen