Mary Elizabeth Quotes

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well.

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.

I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!

My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.

It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

I'm a huge Paul Thomas Anderson fan.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

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.

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.

Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.

I've always been a huge fan of 'The Shining,' and 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite films of all time.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

The more I work the happier I am.

I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

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.

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 think people understand when you say you are making a micro-budget film that you are getting paid no money.