Mary Stuart Masterson Quotes
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
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Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.
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People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
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When interviewing for any job, you of course want to dress appropriately for the position, but you also want to stay true to who you are.
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I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.
