163 Quotes by Mary Steenburgen

I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.

Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.

I'm a very musical person.

I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.

I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.

That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name.

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.

I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.