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What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

Mary Stuart Masterson

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Mary Stuart Masterson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 28
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Manhattan borough
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I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me.
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In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.
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As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.
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I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.
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I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.
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I learned from Francis Ford Coppola to treat the company like your family.
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Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?
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I guess you should approach the roles differently when they're actual people who have been, this is the difference. Getting the accent exact, or the hair exact is less important in a situation like this.
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I love film sets, but I don't necessarily love being the center of attention.
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The secret to success is action, not attitude.Your attitude doesn't matter. It is what you do with your time.
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The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.
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And that's what's beautiful to me, is he did not become a victim of it, and he didn't become a statistic, he just kind of kept on marching through, no matter what people threw at him.
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