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" There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old. "
Mary Steenburgen
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" There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project. "
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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 think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out. "
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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 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'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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" I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up. "
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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 did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused. "
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" 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. "
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" Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film. "
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" I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it. "
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" 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. "
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" I have never had any success in planning my life, really. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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