Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Stuart Mastersonis an American actress and director. She has starred in the films At Close Range, Some Kind of Wonderful, Chances Are, Fried Green Tomatoesand Benny & Joon. She won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1989 film Immediate Family, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the 2003 Broadway revival of Nine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth28 June 1966
CountryUnited States of America
Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.
I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.
I think she looked at Vivien the same way. Of course you can. You know. And, and yet with great respect, because she knew how hard it must have been. And that it was even harder for him, of course, than for her.
You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially.
She came up with a whole way of doing fluoroscopy, which is kind of like a live version of X-ray, so that she could see the heart as it worked, not frozen in a picture.
I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.
The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.
I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.
Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?
As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.
The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.
I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.
I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.