Dancing in the strip club, Not the dancing, but the being naked was excruciatingly scary for me.

- Mary Steenburgen

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

- Mary Steenburgen

We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.

- Mary Steenburgen

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.

- Mary Steenburgen

I have loved by far the majority of the people I've worked with and the experiences I've had.

- Mary Steenburgen

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 tha…

- Mary Steenburgen

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make …

- Mary Steenburgen

I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something …

- Mary Steenburgen

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it,…

- Mary Steenburgen