Mary Steenburgen
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.Collection: Strength
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.Collection: Christmas
I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.Collection: Birthday
My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling.
I've had a great time doing it - being able to say yes to a couple of amazing shows.
There's just a total boatload of crazy that goes with singing live for the first time when you're 60 years old.
I'm a late bloomer.
I have hundreds of songs.
I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.
Life is about surviving loss.
I learned not to care what other people think.
I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.
I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.
What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.
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.
Anytime I had a date, it was at the Sadie Hawkins Day dance.
New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.
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.
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.
I like being part of a team.
For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.
I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.
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.
Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes.
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.
I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.
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.
My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
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.
Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.
I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.
That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name.
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.
I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.
In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.
I love to play horrible, evil, mean people.
I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
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.
If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving.
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.
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.
When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself.
Writing is essentially an internal process.
There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.
I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof.
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.
You don't get to make Westerns every day.
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.
There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'