Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn’t mean it’s easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Mean

Recovery

Tunnels

Anytime I’m given scripts where I’m sort of the fantasy girl, it’s hard for me because that’s not real and I don’t think it’s a great thing to put out there consistently.

Girl

Real

Thinking

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

Challenges

Past

Trying

For any addict, when you get sober, life becomes more challenging, in some ways, because all of your problems become very clear and you have to deal with your pain. You can’t just drink and forget about it and pretend it doesn’t exist. You have to actually face it, head on.

Challenges

Pain

Way

I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be professional, and a lot of the professors and teachers there were drawn to me and thought that I could become a professional ballerina.

New York

School

Teacher

I always felt that my talent would trump everything.

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Talent

Trump

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid – I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

Acting

Kids

Singers

I am manageable. I, you know, it’ll suffice I think. No, no, I feel pretty good. I trained for a long time and I got really cool, like I was doing jumps. It got like, I felt really good, but then when I got out on gravel and fake snow and – it just kind of all went downhill. But I think it’s still okay.

Long

Snow

Thinking

I can remember when Pulp Fiction came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.

Fiction

Impact

Years

I can’t say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I’m certainly part of that culture or it’s part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

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Gamer

Growing Up

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Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn’t mean it’s easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel.

Anytime I’m given scripts where I’m sort of the fantasy girl, it’s hard for me because that’s not real and I don’t think it’s a great thing to put out there consistently.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

For any addict, when you get sober, life becomes more challenging, in some ways, because all of your problems become very clear and you have to deal with your pain. You can’t just drink and forget about it and pretend it doesn’t exist. You have to actually face it, head on.

I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be professional, and a lot of the professors and teachers there were drawn to me and thought that I could become a professional ballerina.

I always felt that my talent would trump everything.

I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid – I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.

I can remember when Pulp Fiction came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the impact that it had.

I can’t say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I’m certainly part of that culture or it’s part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

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