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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."
"Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate."
"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it."
Explore more quotes by Mary Mastrantonio
"I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science."
"Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right."
"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."
"I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience."
"Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is."
"I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters."
"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."
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