American - Actress | February 8, 1953 -
I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.
Mary Steenburgen
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I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.
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I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.
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I got my SAG card on my first movie, 'Goin' South,' with Jack Nicholson in 1978.
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I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
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I would say that the things that have really left a mark on me have more to do with my family and my children's lives rather than a film role.
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Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.
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I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.
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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.
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Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.
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The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.
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I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.
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