Quotes by Mary Mastrantonio

• 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.
• I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.
• I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.
• I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.
• I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be.
• I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
• Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.
• 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.