Mary McDonnell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Just Being #Alive #Moments
I love to work. I love to have complexity.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Complexity
That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Motivational #Thinking #Leader
The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Real #Knowing #Scary
It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Important #Actors #Feels
We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Opportunity #People #Facts
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Emotional #Vocabulary #People
It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Years #People #Important
With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Taken #Years #Play
I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Thinking #Ideas #Life Is
For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.
-- Mary McDonnell

#People #Essentials #Needs
It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.
-- Mary McDonnell

#Jobs #Excellence #Comfort

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