Mary Steenburgen Zitate auf Englisch

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We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.

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My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul.

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I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.

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1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

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'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.

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Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.

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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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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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At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'

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I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.

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I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material.

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My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

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It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.

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For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

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I was excited to turn 60.

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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 didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.

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There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.

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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 grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.

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I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.

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I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.

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Essential oils are extremely important to me.

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A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.

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