Mary Steenburgen
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
Mary Steenburgen

I like being part of a team.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

Mary Steenburgen
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
Mary Steenburgen

Every child in America fantasizes about running wild in the White House for a few minutes.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.

Mary Steenburgen
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
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
Mary Steenburgen

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

I had two wonderful teachers: Sanford Melsner and Fred Kareman.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

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.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

I love to play horrible, evil, mean people.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

If there's an addiction in the Clinton family, it's to problem solving.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.

Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen

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.