Latest Mary Steenburgen Quotes from Interviews

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

  Mary Steenburgen

  People, Majority

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mary Steenburgen

  Left

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I loved working with Malcolm [McDowell]. He's been such an important person in my life. I mean, not just as someone I was married to, which is huge, and the father of my children, which is even bigger, but also as a friend and an inspiration and somebody who probably helped to fuel something that all my reading as a child had already started, which was a love of England and the world of the theater over there, which I became involved with through him and probably because of him.

  Mary Steenburgen

  Children, Father, Inspiration

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mary Steenburgen

  Years, Numbers, England

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Character, Lines, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Stars, Roles, Classic Films

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Horse, Drinking, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mary Steenburgen

  Dancing, Scary, Naked

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Couple, Thinking, Air

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mary Steenburgen

  Crazy, People, Despair

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Teacher, Class, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Mary Steenburgen

  No Money

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Heart, Scary, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org