Mary: (On being an actress) That to make it in the film world means being dedicated to hard work, capable of receiving lots of rejection and being dogged in your efforts.
Mary: (On the movie The Last Picture Show) Here was a movie that took place in a world I knew intimately, not a distant, fantasy location, and it rocked my world.
Mary: (On her part in Big Love) I said, how did I get into this? You know, they offered me this part in the pilot, and I read it and thought: absolutely, yes. It's one of the best scripts I've read in a long time. I thought it was a complete original.