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.
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 hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.
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.
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.
Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.
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'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.
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've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
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.
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