Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.
Last updated on November 30, 2024.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an American actress and singer. She made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of West Side Story, and went on to appear in the 1983 film Scarface as Al Pacino's character's sister, Gina Montana. For her role as Carmen in the 1986 film The Color of Money, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include The Abyss (1989), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), and The Perfect Storm (2000). In 2003, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the Broadway revival of Man of La Mancha.
I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.
I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.
I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.
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 never found that it jars to go back and forth.
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.
Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.
Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.
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 unsavory.