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.
believe beyond explain rational tried uplifting
extraordinary, uplifting and beyond any rational explanation. And believe me, I tried to explain them away.
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.
character littles able
I wanted it to be a wonderful combination of being able to dance a little bit, not being especially good, but also playing a character who says the line, "I love to dance".
children father inspiration
I loved working with Malcolm [McDowell]. He's been such an important person in my life. I mean, not just as someone I was married to, which is huge, and the father of my children, which is even bigger, but also as a friend and an inspiration and somebody who probably helped to fuel something that all my reading as a child had already started, which was a love of England and the world of the theater over there, which I became involved with through him and probably because of him.
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.
book reading decision
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.