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" 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

Black

Worst

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Mary Steenburgen

Being

Team

" 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 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. "

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

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

Mary Steenburgen

People

Underestimate

" 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. "

" My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling. "

" 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. "

" I love to play horrible, evil, mean people. "

" I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially. "

" I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little. "

" I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places. "

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

" I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role. "

Mary Steenburgen

Children

" I have hundreds of songs. "

Mary Steenburgen

Songs

Hundreds

" I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go. "

" I have never had any success in planning my life, really. "

" I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern. "

" I learned not to care what other people think. "

" Wii on Nintendo is amazing. "

Mary Steenburgen

Nintendo

Amazing

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

" I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it. "

" New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people. "

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