As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
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.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
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.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
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.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
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.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
This afternoon, I have to make myself go shop for clothes. And shopping is the one thing in life I really detest.
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton
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?
-- Mary Elizabeth Mastranton



