I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

- Maria Bello

Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.

- Maria Bello

I think most women these days can understand me juggling a career with being a mom because most of us do. I think I'm luckier than most because most …

- Maria Bello

It's not like I prepare anymore, or have to think about my son being dead to get emotional. If you're working with a good actor and you're reacting o…

- Maria Bello

I don't think you understand what levels or what fears until you have a child of your own. I mean, I've never loved someone so much and I've never be…

- Maria Bello

There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away fr…

- Maria Bello

You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're hysterically crying, …

- Maria Bello

My mother told me when I was a kid that each time we get to what feels like the edge of a cliff, we have two choices: to turn around and run, or to j…

- Maria Bello

You serve the best by doing what you love the most.

- Maria Bello