Mary Steenburgen Quotes

I have been lucky with the people that I've worked with - and I have worked with very few people.

It is more difficult to maintain friendship with people that you work with five minutes ago, than from many years ago. For some reason we've just remained friends, we talk to each other all the time. For a while, for years, we spent New Year together.

I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.

One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to happiness, maybe the key to happiness. People who have more strong relationships in their lives just feel happier.

One thing about our show that wasn't even in my awareness, but was brought to my attention by other people, is that our show is about these love-based relationships. Even though the characters are obviously going through different conflicts, you can really feel that the characters love each other. And they really try their best.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

It is said that people learn to hate each other because of little things ... not big ones. I know I have always learned to love because of little things ... I'm not at all sure that there are any big ones.

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold.

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.

God, I had great people in my life.

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

I want to be with people I really like. I don't want to be working on things with people that I'm not happy to be there [with].

The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.

The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.

The same way all the people I love factor in—my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the people I love are always right there. I don't have a lot of people in my life, but there's a small group of people that I don't like to do things without.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

People keep me going. I believe people are wonderful.

I think I have a good rapport with the people I work with and that really helps. If you like working with people and you always have a good time and you always do good work, then they're going to book you again. I like doing what I do.

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships

Either you like a person or you don't like a person. I don't have to love somebody to work with them. I'm a professional person. But when you get the bonus of really liking someone and really connecting with them and really enjoying them, it's a fantastic thing.