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Mary Steenburgen
American
Actress
Born:
Feb 8
,
1953
Life
Love
Me
People
Think
You
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Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.
Mary Steenburgen
Me
Sum
Hey
Miracle
Up
Begin
Hollywood
Career
I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.
Mary Steenburgen
You
People
Big
Whatever
Think
Too
Other
Everybody
Summer
Out
Call
Sort
Alternative
Go
Lot
Huge
Going
Just
Want
Movie
Movies
Them
Watch
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
Time
Crazy
You
Old
First
Singing
Live
Total
First Time
Years
Goes
Just
I'm a late bloomer.
Mary Steenburgen
Late
Late Bloomer
I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.
Mary Steenburgen
Myself
First
Consider
Writer
Singer
Much
What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.
Mary Steenburgen
Mother
Make
Am
Popcorn
Even
Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.
Mary Steenburgen
Day
Dance
Date
Hawkins
Had
Anytime
Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes.
Mary Steenburgen
Few
White
White House
Every
Wild
Running
Minutes
About
House
Child
America
I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
Mary Steenburgen
Work
Half
Year
Silly
Parts
Because
Offered
Being
After
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
You
Think
Corny
Jim
Secret
Inside
Through
He
Know
How
Understood
Sounds
Ultimately
Child
Did
Cut
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.
Mary Steenburgen
You
Advice
Living
Read
Up
Want
Much
Grow
Grow Up
Actress
In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.
Mary Steenburgen
Business
Age
Women
Valued
Guys
Disappear
Supposed
Question
May
Even
I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
Mary Steenburgen
Me
People
Sometimes
Wish
Live
Underestimate
Where
Fleeting
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
Life
Time
Myself
Good
Heart
Made
Single
Every
Every Single Time
Enough
Attack
Could
Had
He
Knew
Single Time
Caused
Behaved
Done
Straight
Dad
Believed
Actually
Save
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
You
Seen
David
Never
Masculine
He
Until
Always
Edwardian
Lady
Anything
Means
When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself.
Mary Steenburgen
Life
You
Yourself
Three
Important
Enjoy
Spend
Months
Doing
Movie
Your
Writing is essentially an internal process.
Mary Steenburgen
Writing
Essentially
Process
Internal
There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.
Mary Steenburgen
Grace
Too
About
Toughness
South
I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof.
Mary Steenburgen
Struggle
Strong
Roof
Those
Find
Having
Also
Feminine
Real
Things
Two
I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
Mary Steenburgen
Work
Me
Everybody
Bad
Couple
Because
Years
Versions
Offering
After
Oscar
Kept
My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
Mary Steenburgen
Heart
World
Events
Girl
Our
Our World
Attacks
Shaped
Had
Huge
Little
Little Girl
Series
Traumatic
Dad
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.
Mary Steenburgen
Good
Journey
You
Book
World
Mind
Think
Books
Kind
Good Thing
Read
Go
Author
Create
Really
Your
Whole
Thing
The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.
Mary Steenburgen
Music
Myself
Slowly
Somehow
Having
Came
Accordion
Just
Taught
Play
Play Music
Desire
I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
Mary Steenburgen
Song
Old
First
Wrote
Years
My son, he has a film group, a bunch of film nerds that sit around and screen movies, and when they had Mary Steenburgen Night, the two movies they screened were 'Melvin And Howard' and 'Clifford.'
Mary Steenburgen
Son
Sit
Group
Nerds
Mary
Had
He
Around
Clifford
Were
Bunch
Screen
Screened
Movies
Film
Night
Two
'Step Brothers' was like a reward for going through my whole career and somehow surviving.
Mary Steenburgen
Reward
Brothers
Somehow
Through
Step
Like
Surviving
Going
Whole
Career
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