Latest Maria Bello Quotes from Interviews

• Since I first started acting, I never separated a character's sexuality from what they eat for breakfast. I just think it's sort of silly. If I can be a part of helping to overcome that puritanical thing in our culture, so be it. I'm happy about it.

  Maria Bello

  Silly, Thinking, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I think most women these days can understand me juggling a career with being a mom because most of us do. I think I'm luckier than most because most women work nine to five and don't see their kids. I work six months a year or eight months a year.

  Maria Bello

  Mom, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I think my work as an actress is less about a director and more about a person. You feel you can trust them instinctively. I met my best friends that way, I knew in a second.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, My Best Friend

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I think a lot of people are in relationships because they've been in them for a long time and they don't know how to end them.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.

  Maria Bello

  Mom, Real, Acting

  Source: collider.com

• You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're hysterically crying, like most of us girls.

  Maria Bello

  Girl, Strong, Bad Ass

  Source: collider.com

• I just want to use all of myself, for the rest of my life, in every facet of my life, as long as I live.

  Maria Bello

  Long, Use, Want

  Source: collider.com

• When I had my son, it was the worst day and the best day of my life because I realized that I will never love someone so much, but I will never be able to keep him from the lessons that he's meant to learn, in this lifetime.

  Maria Bello

  Son, Able, Lifetime

  Source: collider.com

• I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.

  Maria Bello

  Feelings, Different, Want

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

• People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen, and they probably find it fascinating. I think more actors are doing it and being open to that and not being afraid of it, so it's becoming less of a thing.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

• I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for me. That sort of instinctual, in the moment, what the other actors do, working off them and letting the story unfold, as opposed to having an idea of what the story should be.

  Maria Bello

  Ideas, Stories, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

• It's not like I prepare anymore, or have to think about my son being dead to get emotional. If you're working with a good actor and you're reacting off of them and you have a good script, it just comes organically. It's just stored in your body. So that emotion will just be brought out of you, as opposed to trying to force it.

  Maria Bello

  Son, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

• I think a lot of people become actors because they have a great reservoir and repertoire of many different emotions they felt over their lives. It's like having a toolbox, and you go down into the toolbox and choose one or two of those that you need for a particular scenario, or something that comes up in a line.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, Two, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

• I feel like, in a way, after doing it for so many years, you learn a certain concentration and how to turn it on and off.

  Maria Bello

  Years, Way, Certain

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

• People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, People, Actors

• There's usually not a lot of rehearsal when you do films.

  Maria Bello

  Rehearsal, Film

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

• I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who I was and how I was. That never helped me in any way, so I don't even do that.

  Maria Bello

  Children, Character, Ideas

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