American - Actress | February 8, 1953 -
I started in improv and went into different kinds of things.
Mary Steenburgen
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I'm a very musical person.
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I write music as a staff writer for Universal Music Group, and I have since 2007. I've never talked about it publicly because I wanted to earn the right to be in the same room as the great writers I write with and not shoot my mouth off because I'm an actor. It's really important to me, and I really care about it.
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Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.
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If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.
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I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.
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There are no worse cliches than southern cliches. They make my skin crawl.
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I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go.
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'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.
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I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.
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Wii on Nintendo is amazing.
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There's a certain freedom that comes when people don't expect you to be sexy.
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