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" Wii on Nintendo is amazing. "

Mary Steenburgen

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" Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody. "

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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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" I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you. "

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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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" When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself. "

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" I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me. "

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" I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh. "

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" I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them. "

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" The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself. "

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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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" I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof. "

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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 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. "

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" In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear. "

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" I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out. "

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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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