Quotes from Mary Steenburgen

Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.

I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women.

My son, he has a film group, a bunch of film nerds that sit around and screen movies, and when they had Mary Steenburgen Night, the two movies they screened were 'Melvin And Howard' and 'Clifford.'

Wii on Nintendo is amazing.

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.

I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places.

Acting was far from my world. I rarely saw a play. I never met a real actress; they seemed unreal.

I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.

I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.

Essential oils are extremely important to me.

'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.

Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.

In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.

There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.

It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.

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.

I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

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.

I don't want to go to just watch big huge summer movies that everybody predicts is going to be the big huge summer movie and that are all the sort of blow-them-up movies or whatever you want to call them. I think there are a lot of other people out there, too, that want an alternative.

I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.

I'm a late bloomer.

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.