Top 38 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.
Mary Steenburgen
#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".
Mary Steenburgen
#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.
Mary Steenburgen
#5. Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop.
Mary Steenburgen
#6. There isn't a necklace, is there?'
'You'll only find out if you answer my question.'
'You're mean.'
'I'm learning to be so.' She preferred to think of it as taking more of a hand in her own destiny, but she didn't much care what anyone else might call it.
Suzanne Enoch
#7. 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
#8. The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.
James Woods
#9. It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.
Mary Steenburgen
#10. 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
#11. Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
Mary Steenburgen
#12. The elements of life do not segregate themselves, unless they are human.
Zephyr A. McIntyre
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I have loved by far the majority of the people I've worked with and the experiences I've had.
Mary Steenburgen
#16. 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
#17. You do better in the gym with a trainer; you don't figure out how to cook without reading a recipe. Therapy is not something to be embarrassed about.
Kristen Bell
#18. 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
#19. Like a wing sweeping them into its embrace, the storm closed around them.
Steven Erikson
#20. I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#21. Life isn't just about major characters and the big events. It's about everyone, everything, in between.
Michelle Richmond
#22. The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less.
Vaclav Havel
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.
Abhijit Naskar
#27. 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
#29. You'll never meet a nicer person, let alone a nicer actress, than Mary Steenburgen.
Jon Turteltaub
#30. Dancing in the strip club, Not the dancing, but the being naked was excruciatingly scary for me.
Mary Steenburgen
#31. It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.
Mary Steenburgen
#32. People are constantly changing and growing.do not cling to a limited disconnected, negative image of a person in the past.see that person now.your relationship is always live and changing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#33. I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.
Mary Steenburgen
#34. People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.
Mary Steenburgen
#35. 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
#36. Every second I stand here in your temperature-controlled cell," Jenna said, "I'm forced to suck down the same recycled air that's going through your nostrils, and that thought absolutely nauseates me.
Richard Finney
#37. 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
#38. 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
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