As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.
Gene Hackman is just so great. There's no mystery about what he's doing, no voodoo, nothing hidden. He doesn't bully and he doesn't test you. He doesn't go off in a corner, and he doesn't flounder around.
Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.
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.
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
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 hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.
I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.
I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.
I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.
I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
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.
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.
Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right.
This afternoon, I have to make myself go shop for clothes. And shopping is the one thing in life I really detest.
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?
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