Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Nell Steenburgenis an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing the role of Lynda Dummar in Jonathan Demme's 1980 film Melvin and Howard...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth8 February 1953
CityNewport, AR
CountryUnited States of America
chasing happens seeing start wrong
That's what happens to people, they start not seeing each other. They start not seeing the truth. And sometimes they start chasing the wrong thing.
horse drinking thinking
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.
teacher class voice
I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.
couple thinking air
I think I did a couple of test commercials that didn't even make it on the air. That's how little I had really done. I knew almost nothing about the camera. In fact, I actually did know nothing about the camera.
stars roles classic-films
I'd never studied film. I had movies that I loved and movie stars that I looked up to, but I really had not seen a lot of the great classic films that he felt like he wanted me to see before I took on such a huge role.
no-money
Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop.
dancing scary clubs
Dancing in the strip club, Not the dancing, but the being naked was excruciatingly scary for me.
years numbers england
It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.
artist found bunch
I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.
left
We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.
mom thinking arkansas
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.
actors done cameras
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.
crazy people despair
People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.
southern south
Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.