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
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.
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.
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.
stars thinking people
It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.
thinking speaks-out looks
I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.
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.
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.
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.