Mary Stuart Masterson Quotes
As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Quotes to Explore
-
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
-
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
-
I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
-
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
-
It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
-
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
-
I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
-
Being queen is overrated.
-
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
-
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
-
I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
-
The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
-
Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
-
We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
-
I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
-
I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
-
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
-
A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
-
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
-
If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!
-
High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
-
Health, money. That's what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.
-
As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.