Mary Elizabeth Quotes

My personal sense of humor is edgy, I would say more cable-like: words you're not allowed to say, ideas that the majority of people might say, "That's too risqué for me."

It's fun to be debaucherous and the worst version of yourself.

I'm not good at reading reviews and things like that.

I'm not good at going on the internet and trolling around and finding information.

A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

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.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

You have to believe that it is what you want to do with your life and you have to be dedicated to it.

I'm a fan of films in general; I mean, I don't think I've ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though I do enjoy horror films, find them really entertaining.

Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way I think is debatable. I just don't know which side to debate.

To me it's so much like Spaced in that way. Um, which I love so much, so I think fans of that and fans of the comics are going to really see that up on the screen.

I've never worn incredible clothes - I'm not used to playing someone so put together and fashionable.

I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.

Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.

I always felt that my talent would trump everything.

I was kind of embarrassed by some of the films I had done. I was like, "Oh, they're going to think I don't have street cred."

The more I work the happier I am.

I think when I was 12, when, like, 'Titanic' and 'Romeo + Juliet' came out, my friends and I made our own Leonardo DiCaprio fan club. I definitely had a thing for him.

My first movie was a movie that had a bunch of people dying in it - the typical popcorn movie. That's where I got my start.

I think my drive to work has gone up a bit since I've gotten older.

We make conscious choices to do something a certain way.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

I grew up in a big movie house, we watched movies all the time, so I had an awareness at a very young age that that was a job that you could have.

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel or a remake, they sort of assume the worst sometimes.

To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in the privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves.

There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

I'm not one of those actors that hates press and gets really groan-y about it - I always like talking about films.

I found my way into the indie world a bit late in my career, but it was something that I was really passionate about doing.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

It's surprising to a lot of people because ballerinas look so long, but it's more of a proportion thing. Their legs are long in proportion to their body but in reality they're very tiny.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

I realized that the people weren't just characters but they were people and they were getting to do something that was so fun and I wanted to be a part of it.

I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.

I want to be inspired by the characters that I play and excited by the projects that I do.

Normally as an actress you're constantly worried that people think you don't look good enough. It's just like an unnecessary stress that's just frustrating.

When I was 10, my school did Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet, and that was, like, the biggest deal ever. I was completely obsessed with the role.

In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I didn't fit a certain mold there was nothing I could do.

I love playing characters that are strong, when there's physicality involved.

Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.

Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

I don't have any premonitions. I don't have any supernatural powers. I just have a typical woman's intuition, and I go with that.

I don't think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.

I can remember when Pulp Fiction came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.

Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.

I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.