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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. "
Mary Steenburgen
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" I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old. "
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" I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially. "
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" Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work. "
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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 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. "
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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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" There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old. "
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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 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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" I'm a very musical person. "
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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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Hey
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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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" Wii on Nintendo is amazing. "
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Nintendo
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" 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. "
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Brain
Never
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" If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can. "
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" I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978. "
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Movie
Got
" For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone. "
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You
Together
" I was excited to turn 60. "
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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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" 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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" My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events. "
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" I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody. "
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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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