My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events. Mary Steenburgen Read Quote
When I was going through sad times, I’d watch ‘Cheers’ at the end of the day to make me feel better. Mary Steenburgen Read Quote
Reading is how I became an actor because I didn’t grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world. Mary Steenburgen Read Quote
Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there’s something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you’re looking at other people’s imagination at work. Mary Steenburgen Read Quote
When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that’s really a good thing. Mary Steenburgen Read Quote
The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We’re very childlike in many ways. Mary Steenburgen Read Quote
I’m not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns – I love them. Mary Steenburgen Read Quote
Last Man On Earth,’ I have to say, is a love for me. I mean, a true passion. To people who haven’t watched it or who’ve watched a little and thought, ‘Ah, I don’t know where this is going,’ or whatever, I urge them to check it out again. Mary Steenburgen Read Quote
The part in ‘Philadelphia’ where I represent the law firm that’s firing Tom Hanks, that was a hard part for me because I lost one of my best friends to AIDS, and it was hard for me to play a part that wasn’t sympathetic to someone with AIDS. Mary Steenburgen Read Quote
