163 Quotes by Mary Steenburgen

My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.

My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.

When I was going through sad times, I'd watch 'Cheers' at the end of the day to make me feel better.

Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world.

Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.

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.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.

The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.