Mary Elizabeth Winstead Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Art, Kids, Goal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be professional, and a lot of the professors and teachers there were drawn to me and thought that I could become a professional ballerina.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Teacher, New York, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Clouds, Kitchen, Vision

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Girl, Years, Tape

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Ballet, Body Types, Mold

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  School, Roles, Juliet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Fun, Character, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's actually a time when I got cast in something and it was announced that someone else was cast. I hadn't been told yet if I had the role and I had a breakdown because I really wanted it and it was announced on this website that this other girl had gotten it. I was so sad and called my agents and said, "You guys didn't tell me this other person got the role!" They were like, "No, they haven't decided yet." Then two hours later I got the call that said I had the role.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Girl, Two, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Hate, Film, Get Real

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Careers, Passionate, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So I get all the references and I totally get the humor and it's really fun. This - it's kind of a mash up of so many different genres and things that kind of, sort of are just part of youth culture right now. Music and action and video games, and it's kind of amazing to see it all piled into one film.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Fun, Mash Up, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• I have a sister who is a dancer and dance teacher. We grew up dancing together. I wanted to become a ballerina when I was a kid, so she and I were always at ballet conservatories and going to school with our hair in buns.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Character, Play, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I think just about everyone is doing something that's completely different from what you've seen them do before or a stretch in some way. Like Brandon Routh is so funny, he's awesome. And Chris Evans is hilarious. I mean, he's always funny but just in this character, it's like, I mean I could barely stop laughing on a single take, it was unbelievable. So I think everybody's going to be really, really happy with all the [exes?].

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Stress, Thinking, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Some of those things come out and you don't know where they came from - somebody's leaking totally false information. They follow you for years and you have to be like, "I don't know anything about that."

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Years, Information, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Two, Directors, Different

  "Mary Elizabeth Winstead Talks SMASHED, THE SPECTACULAR NOW, CHARLIE SWAN, and A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2012.

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Past, Challenges, Trying

  Interview with Helen Earnshaw, www.femalefirst.co.uk. July 29, 2008.

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

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Impact, Years, Fiction

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• I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Voice, Vision, Sticks

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

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, People, Film

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Growing Up, Culture, Gamer

  "Mary Elizabeth Winstead On Set Interview SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. May 25, 2010.

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• I do get starstruck working with Bruce because even though he is such a nice guy he's a real movie star. I grew up watching his movies it is just really hard to get used to just being around Bruce Willis. I mean, he's Bruce Willis!

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Stars, Real, Nice

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Girl, Real, Thinking

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