Mary Steenburgen Quotes

#1. I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.

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#2. I wanted it to be a wonderful combination of being able to dance a little bit, not being especially good, but also playing a character who says the line, "I love to dance".

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#3. I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.

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#4. We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.

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#5. Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop.

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#6. 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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#7. It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

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#8. I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.

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#9. Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

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#10. I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

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#11. It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.

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#12. I have loved by far the majority of the people I've worked with and the experiences I've had.

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#13. There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

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#14. I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them. And I know they're rare for actors to get to do, and they're even more rare for women to get to do, so I really think I was drinking in the experience on so many levels.

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#15. I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.

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#16. 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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#17. 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.

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#18. Dancing in the strip club, Not the dancing, but the being naked was excruciatingly scary for me.

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#19. 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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#20. I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

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#21. People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.

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#22. There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

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#23. I think I did a couple of test commercials that didn't even make it on the air. That's how little I had really done. I knew almost nothing about the camera. In fact, I actually did know nothing about the camera.

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#24. I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen a lot of the great classic films that he felt like he wanted me to see before I took on such a huge role.

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