163 Quotes by Mary Steenburgen

That's what happens to people, they start not seeing each other. They start not seeing the truth. And sometimes they start chasing the wrong thing.

extraordinary, uplifting and beyond any rational explanation. And believe me, I tried to explain them away.

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.

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.

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'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.

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

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

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".