"Actors are part of a certain percentage of……" — Mary McDonnell
"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."
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Mary McDonnell
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13 Quotes by Mary McDonnell
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I love to work. I love to have complexity.
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We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
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That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal.…
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The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.
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It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.
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We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity…
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It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be…
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With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I…
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I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace,…
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I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a…
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Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect…
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Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the arc of the show. Looking…
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