Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life.

I don't think I'll ever act again. I have so many wonderful memories, but those days are over.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.

I'd love to do a drama.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'

The first show I was in was 'Dracula' in 1975.

I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

Both of my parents are actors, so I grew up backstage with them. I would see some of their shows 30, 40, 50 times. I would have it all memorized. I loved it.

I enjoy acting, and I would love to do a play in the future.

I started at the Incognito Theatre as an amateur.

I didn't like the idea of acting back in school. Both my brothers were into it.

The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.

Theatre is where my passion lies - I just love it. I love watching it, and I love doing it.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.