135 Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big films but do have really independent voices. That's kind of what I want to focus on, is always working with people with at least an independent point of view, even if it's not an independent film.

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.