I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief – even though our children are 19 through 23. – Mary Steenburgen
I’ve chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I’ve had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I’ve just done things I loved when I read them. – Mary Steenburgen
I decided if you’re lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about. – Mary Steenburgen
You’ve never seen anything until you’ve seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he’s so… masculine. – Mary Steenburgen
I don’t want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative. – Mary Steenburgen
I’ve found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it’s percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it. – Mary Steenburgen
I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could. – Mary Steenburgen
Whenever we start a new TV series, there’s also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are. – Mary Steenburgen
I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children’s lives rather than a film role. – Mary Steenburgen