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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.

I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.

Mary Steenburgen

What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.

Mary Steenburgen

I learned not to care what other people think.

Mary Steenburgen

There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.

Mary Steenburgen

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

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

Mary Steenburgen

I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.

Mary Steenburgen

I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in.

Mary Steenburgen

I loved Westerns for different reasons as an adult. It is not only our only native brand of storytelling - the only one that's not influenced by Europeans and not something that's done better by the French - but I also love the sensuality of the Western. The sights, sounds, and smell of a Western are very exciting.

Mary Steenburgen

I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

Mary Steenburgen

You don't get to make Westerns every day.

Mary Steenburgen

There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.

Mary Steenburgen

Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.

Mary Steenburgen

I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.

Mary Steenburgen

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

Mary Steenburgen

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.

Mary Steenburgen

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

We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.

Mary Steenburgen

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

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

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

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

Mary Steenburgen

There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

Mary Steenburgen

I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.

Mary Steenburgen

My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.

Mary Steenburgen

I feel like I'm attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they've got this whole thing figured out, but there's more going on inside their heads than you might imagine.

Mary Steenburgen

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

My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.

Mary Steenburgen

I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

Mary Steenburgen

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

I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.

Mary Steenburgen

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

New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.

Mary Steenburgen

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

Mary Steenburgen

I love to play horrible, evil, mean people.

Mary Steenburgen

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

Mary Steenburgen