I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible. – Mary Steenburgen
I’m not saying it’s easy, and it’s definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it’s different for older women. – Mary Steenburgen
There’s something inside of me that just connects or doesn’t connect with the project. – Mary Steenburgen
Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal. – Mary Steenburgen
We’re all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst. – Mary Steenburgen
Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless. – Mary Steenburgen
Hey, it’s a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn’t begin to sum me up. – Mary Steenburgen
I don’t worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn’t bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work – which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in. – Mary Steenburgen
I wish sometimes people wouldn’t underestimate me. But it’s a fleeting wish. It’s not where I live. – Mary Steenburgen
I don’t know if I’ve ever read a movie that’s as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we’re doing on ‘The Last Man on Earth.’ It’s jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places. – Mary Steenburgen
In my business, guys may age, but it’s not even a question they’re valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear. – Mary Steenburgen
I feel like I’m attracted to characters who have one foot firmly planted on the ground. And their heads up in the clouds somewhere. Practical dreamers. They try to impress you that they’ve got this whole thing figured out, but there’s more going on inside their heads than you might imagine. – Mary Steenburgen
I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from. – Mary Steenburgen
I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn’t perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect. – Mary Steenburgen
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. – Mary Steenburgen
New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people. – Mary Steenburgen
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those. – Mary Steenburgen
