Mary Steenburgen Quotes

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

I would die if Woody Allen ever called and said, 'Emma, I have a role for you.'

I was living in Seattle. I was 21 years old, just going to do theater. And I got a call that David Lynch was in town and wanted to meet with me.

Now that I am playing a movie star, I am ready to be a real one.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

I was like, 'Whoa, I'm auditioning for 'Hunger Games?' That's like my dream come true. That's like a Trekkie auditioning for 'Star Trek.'

I arrived in Los Angeles on the Monday, had a call from my agent to say they wanted to see me for 'Dallas,' made an audition tape at my friend's house in L.A. the same day, and had the job the following Monday.

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

Occasionally I will audition for a big overseas movie, but that's it.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

There was no way I could live in Hollywood and not become an actress.

Every movie I've done, when they cast me, they knew I'd probably do it for a toffee apple and a Frappuccino.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.

I don't have any massive ambitions to be a movie star.

I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

I've worked Keira Knightley quite a bit and Kevin Costner.