163 Quotes by Mary Steenburgen

I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out.

It’s usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

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

There’s a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

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 still try to do what I’ve always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there’s something scary about it.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I’m Southern.

It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn’t think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.

There’s just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.