Mary Wiseman Quotes

As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

One day I'm lugging walls back and forth in Louisville, and the next day I'm at Cannes giving interviews next to Ben Kingsley. I'm nowhere near cynical or jaded enough not to be incredibly thrilled by that.

After 'Fukrey,' when a filmmaker came to narrate a film to me, I started crying. It was a dream come true moment for me.

I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

I still pinch myself when I see myself on 'Match of the Day' - it's at times like that you realise how far you've come.

I set a goal for myself in being an actor and moving out to L.A., and I really felt I had achieved it when I landed 'Shameless.'

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

'300' was a real turning point in my career. Until then, I felt like a steam train that was slowly chugging to the top of a hill. Now I'm over that hill, my career seems to have its own momentum.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.

I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about.

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't even know if I dreamed this big.

I've done four other films since 'Submarine,' so that's quite cool. It's just good to have people respect your work; I've never had that before. Yeah, my life has changed crazy. I'm a kid from a small town in south Wales, I play my Xbox usually and all that sort of stuff, and it's a whole new world.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

My ambition in the cinema, since I came across it, was to play Chance... I have realized that ambition, and so I have no more.

Working with the Coens was a dream come true.

I still remember when I was 18 and my life was completely different. I was in my apartment, and I got the call that I got Stiles for this pilot. I was just jumping around with my roommates, freaking out. It's crazy to think about.

You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with.

According to me films like 'Sonali Cable' are career changing films and only few get such chance, I am happy that I did this film.