Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Quotes

12 quotations by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

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

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.

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.

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

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

I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.

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

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.

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

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.