19 Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

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.

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.