Top 40 Mary Steenburgen Quotes
#1. You'll never meet a nicer person, let alone a nicer actress, than Mary Steenburgen.
Jon Turteltaub
#2. My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
Ted Danson
#3. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#4. Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead, start where you stand.
Berton Braley
#5. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#6. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#7. Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.
Jonathan Darman
#8. People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.
Margaret Atwood
#9. Dancing in the strip club, Not the dancing, but the being naked was excruciatingly scary for me.
Mary Steenburgen
#10. Enough. I don't have time for this; self-pity's a luxury that I can't afford.
Like bread. Or pride.
Enough, Errin. There's work to do. Get up.
Melinda Salisbury
#12. We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs" (Buck, 105).
Pearl S. Buck
#14. It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.
Mary Steenburgen
#15. America gets rock stars a little more than Canada does.
Sebastian Bach
#16. I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.
Mary Steenburgen
#17. People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.
Mary Steenburgen
#18. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#20. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#21. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#22. It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.
Mary Steenburgen
#23. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#24. 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".
Mary Steenburgen
#26. Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.
David D. Burns
#27. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#29. Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop.
Mary Steenburgen
#30. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#31. It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.
Seneca.
#32. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#33. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#34. Together with worldly education, you have to cultivate the human values and undertake spiritual discipline.
Sathya Sai Baba
#35. Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
Mary Steenburgen
#36. Realize you can chase your dreams with just believing. Don't be afraid to believe in some magic; if proof not in front in of you, follow your gut.
Chris Wyse
#37. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#38. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#39. I have loved by far the majority of the people I've worked with and the experiences I've had.
Mary Steenburgen
#40. 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.
Mary Steenburgen
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