Latest Mary Elizabeth Winstead Quotes from Interviews

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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

• We make conscious choices to do something a certain way.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Choices, Conscious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Clothes, Together, Playing Someone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Parent, Roles, Accepted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Kids, Men, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Jobs, House, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Actresses, Juliet, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• I always felt that my talent would trump everything.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Talent, Trump, Felt

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Reality, Long, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• 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."

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, Done, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  People, Dying, Typical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

• The more I work the happier I am.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Thinking, Gone, Bits

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com