Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Quotations

Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.

I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.

I almost went home this summer to do Stephen Sondheim's Sunday In the Park. But for personal reasons, I needed to plant myself here.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

I don't need much when I work. I don't need friends, I don't need a lover. I don't need a lot of strokes. I just need to know what's going on.

You're always going to think, Should I have done every single thing I was offered? Should I maybe have taken more familiar kinds of roles?

Other women see all the women I play as separate people. Men say, She always plays tough, willful types; strong women who are also vulnerable.

Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.