Mary McDonnell Quotes

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

  Mary McDonnell

  Alive, Just Being, Moments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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 we have to evolve.

  Mary McDonnell

  Opportunity, People, Facts

  "Mary McDonnell Talks ‘Battlestar’ Finale". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 23, 2009.

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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 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

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• It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

  Mary McDonnell

  Important, Actors, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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 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

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• 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

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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. 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

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• The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

  Mary McDonnell

  Real, Knowing, Scary

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• 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

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love to work. I love to have complexity.

  Mary McDonnell

  Complexity

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