Mary McCormack Quotes

Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.

Five years is a long time to play one part.

Really, I'm just a simple girl from Jersey.

I think we've all experienced sort of becoming who we are as a reaction to what we come from.

Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

I can be a little acerbic.

Acting is always sort of the same - like you want to be - you know you're pretending and you want to make it as real as you can. That's the similarity. The mediums other than that are completely different. I mean you know with camera work you're doing really small detailed work and you know if you do anything too big you've sort of failed. And with stage, especially with the play I'm doing right now, I'm doing a farce, and it's so over the top that you can't actually be too big. So it's just completely different.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

I always want to work.

I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.

I don't know if I have actually good comedic timing. But I don't think I've worked at any timing. I think timing is probably something you can't work at. Well, I don't know. I definitely didn't work at it.

You won't believe what our kids are eating in the public schools. It's just nuts.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

I eat anything, especially sweets. Chocolate, cookies, and I love mint-chip ice cream.