You have to believe that it is what you want to do with your life and you have to be dedicated to it.
Mary Elizabeth WinsteadI have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.
Mary Elizabeth WinsteadI think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.
Mary Elizabeth WinsteadSometimes, 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 WinsteadIt's always been a lot of fun for me, just to be in films that people see and they connect to, big or small. The big ones tend to reach a wider audience, so it's exciting to feel like you've got fans in countries, all over the world, who are watching what you're doing. That's really great!
Mary Elizabeth Winstead