145 Inspiring Quotes By Mary Steenburgen For The Ones Who Need A Little Push
Mary Steenburgen is an American actress, songwriter, singer and comedian. She bagged in a ‘Golden Globe Award’ and an ‘Academy Award’ for her performance in ‘Melvin and Howard.’ She earned a ‘BAFTA’ nomination for ‘Tender Is the Night,’ a ‘Golden Globe’ nomination for ‘Ragtime,’ and an ‘Emmy’ nomination for ‘The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank.’ Zoom through the treasure trove of famous quotes by Mary Steenburgen on growing-up, comedy, love, arrogance, fear, mother, difficulties, success, work, acting, relationship, music, writing, women, money, business, decision, family, battles and more.
We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.
People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.
It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
I have loved by far the majority of the people I've worked with and the experiences I've had.
Dancing in the strip club, Not the dancing, but the being naked was excruciatingly scary for me.
Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop.
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.
You don't get to make Westerns every day.
Writing is essentially an internal process.
Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.
Wii on Nintendo is amazing.
Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.
When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself.
When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.
When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.
What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.
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.
We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this for ourselves. We shouldn't be so quick to close doors.
We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
There's something inside of me that just connects or doesn't connect with the project.
There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.
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.
There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.
There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
