163 Quotes by Mary Steenburgen

I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

I'm a late bloomer.

I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.

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.

I have hundreds of songs.

We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this for ourselves. We shouldn't be so quick to close doors.

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 don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.