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"I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years"

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There is something charmingly disarming about an actress crediting her life to Mars: it’s cosmic, yes, but also deliberately modest. Ann Robinson’s line reads like the kind of half-believed superstition performers use to make sense of careers built on contingency. Acting is a profession where timing, taste, and sheer luck can look indistinguishable from fate. Mars becomes a playful stand-in for whatever invisible machinery kept the auditions coming, the health steady, the checks clearing, the name remembered.

The specific intent feels less like astrology-as-doctrine and more like gratitude with a wink. Saying “I almost feel like” keeps the claim airy, defensively self-aware. It signals: I know this sounds fanciful, but I also know how improbable it is to still be here, still me, still working. The planet isn’t a literal guardian; it’s a narrative device that makes luck feel personal. That’s the subtext: an attempt to domesticate randomness.

Context matters too. Robinson’s public identity is tied to classic science fiction, where Mars is never just a rock in the sky but a symbol of the unknown pressing in on everyday life. For an actress associated with that genre’s wide-eyed awe, invoking Mars folds biography into iconography. It lets her convert longevity into a story audiences can recognize: the star who kept one foot in the strange and found, somehow, that the strange took care of her.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Robinson, Ann. (2026, January 16). I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-almost-feel-like-mars-has-been-taking-care-of-139007/

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Robinson, Ann. "I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-almost-feel-like-mars-has-been-taking-care-of-139007/.

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"I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-almost-feel-like-mars-has-been-taking-care-of-139007/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Ann Robinson (born May 1, 1935) is a Actress from USA.

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