Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.

I believe I made it in show business.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

I think, being a kid, you always think about being a movie star. And then as I got older, I started thinking about just the work.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.

I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6.

To this day, I don't know what shapes a Hollywood career.

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star.

I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier in 'The Wilby Conspiracy' - but everyone told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place, they said, and I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

Hollywood is my day job.

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

I've never been a Hollywood dropout.

Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.