APPLAUSE FOR HER WORK
“As an actress, when she cries, we cry. When she laughs, we laugh. And when she’s passionate about something or ticked off…look out! Mary Beth is truly unbelievable, both on and off camera. She is the perfect girl next door, with an old soul, yet so young, a testimonial to the actress’s ability to involve us, the viewers, in anything and all things she does.” -Ken Corday, Days of our Lives’ executive producer, in his book “The Days of our Lives” 2010“She’s a wonderful combination of innocence and devilishness… she’s your classic romantic heroine in that there’s a loveliness to her, but she’s willing to push the envelope and explore the dark side, which is a very compelling combination and helps make her so beautiful.”
-Mark Teschner, GH Casting Director, Soap Opera Magazine July 14, 1998 issue
“Soap Opera Update Salutes Mary Beth Evans for the depth and range of her talent and her ability to make us open our hearts and share the feelings.”
-Alison J Waldman, SOU writer (Soap Opera Update, 1990)
“Mary Beth Evans adds class to any scene.”
-Soap Opera Update (editors) 2/27/01
“Every so often an actor comes along who leaves the audience wondering if there’s anything they can’t do. Mary Beth Evans is one such actor, who is equally adept at comedy and drama.”
-Soap Dish Magazine (writer Don Wagner) February, 1996
“Aside from looking stunning, she will move you like you won’t believe.”
-Hogan Sheffer (ATWT Headwriter) /Soap Opera Digest- 1/2/01 (Previews for 2001)
“I don’t know what it is about her…her eyes, her superb acting, but she is to me, everything Sierra should be…when Mary Beth came on, I was like …this woman is a revelation.”
-Hogan Sheffer, ATWT Headwriter, 10/5/04 CBS Soaps In Depth
“We are very pleased that someone of Mary Beth’s talent was available to play the role of Sierra Montgomery. I have been a fan of hers for a long time. She is a consummate professional, and we are really lucky to have her”
-As The World Turns Executive Producer Chris Goutman/Statement in several magazines December 2000
“I think she’s brilliant. I didn’t know her in the other role (Kayla), but I think she’s absolutely marvelous. I’m so invested in her as a bad girl, but then I had no baggage. She must have been enormously effective on Days…She has been such a trouper and has bitten the bullet and gone for the wicked stuff. And I think she’s just about the best little bad girl in the world.”
-Claire Labine, ex- General Hospital Headwriter
“While viewers have responded to Katherine’s more sensitive moments, they’ve also loved her when she’s been a royal bitch, too… It’s a testament to Evans’ versatility that she can play characters both beloved and hated. It will be a shame to see her leave!”
-Soap Opera Update applauds Mary Beth upon news of her upcoming departure from GH, September, 1999
“I didn’t know her because I’m new to soaps when we found her, everyone went, ‘This is great.’ I was like, ‘Who is she?’ I watched in close circuit when she was taping, and everyone was blown away. She’s so stunningly beautiful. There’s a scene in the jailhouse that breaks your heart. I love her on the map because she humanizes Craig. When she’s with Hunt (Block), all I kept thinking was ‘Craig, what’s WRONG with you?’ I would love to use her again. That’s one of the things we’re kicking around.”
-Hogan Sheffer, As The World Turns Headwriter, Soap Opera Weekly, 1/02/01
“Thanks to her heartwarming performances in only a few key episodes, Evans successfully assumed this role, helping even longtime viewers forget that she did not create Sierra-no small feat on a 44 year old show.”
-Soap Opera Weekly 1/22/01; from an article naming Mary Beth Performer of the Week
“Evans successfully replaced Finn Carter’s Sierra as effortlessly as she made fans fall in love with her as Days of our Lives’ Kayla. Even ATWT headwriter Hogan Sheffer is singing her praises, and the buzz is that ATWT wants her for a long term contract. As Sierra, Evans mesmerizes us with her convoluted relationship with Craig, undying love for her son Bryant, and honest mother/daughter bond with Lucinda.”
-Soap Opera Update Editors/People Are Talking May 22, 2001
“We can’t say enough about how completely thrilled we are that the talented Mary Beth Evans is back as Sierra on ATWT. Every time we turn on CBS and see the youthful Evans acting her heart out on screen, not to mention those bedroom scenes with the too-hot Hunt Block, we thank our lucky stars. Let’s see if the show can convince her to hang around for a long time to come. Leave her alone, DAYS.”
-Soap Opera Update Editors “It’s What We Want To See” September, 2001
“…Mary Beth Evans’s breakdown as Sierra was nothing short of spectacular.”
-Soap Opera Digest Magazine, 9/14/04 (From ATWT: Editor’s Choice article)
“Every time Sierra returns to Oakdale, Evans steals the show.”
-Soap Opera Weekly Magazine, 9/14/04 From “Performer of the Week” article
“Heroic, hurt, confident, confused, pressured, or at peace, Mary Beth played it all. Rather than falling from the pedestal, Mary Beth ascended into the stratosphere.”
-Soap Opera Update June 5 1989
“Winners: ATWT’s Mary Beth Evans. She breathes a wonderful lightness into the drama with every visit. Watching Mary Beth Evans go toe-to-toe with Elizabeth Hubbard was simply mesmerizing…Given Evans performance, Lucinda may have lost a daughter, but Hubbard gained a worthy sparring partner.”
-Kevin Ullman, Soap Opera Weekly Hit or Miss (Editor) September 11, 2001
“God, I wish she was an East Coast girl. The last scenes between Sierra and Craig blew me away. They just blew me away. I love Mary Beth, so I want to bring her back as often as we can.”
-Hogan Sheffer, ATWT Headwriter CBS Soaps In Depth July 17, 2001
“Having had a little creative influence in “creating” Patch and Kayla, I have to tell you that Mary Beth exceeded all our hopes–she fit the bill exactly, bringing the character to life from our pages that made us all fans.”
-Thom Racina (ex-headwriter, Days of our Lives, co-wrote much of the early Steve and Kayla story), Quote from welovesoaps.net, 1/5/10, Article Naming Mary Beth one of the ‘Top 50 Daytime Actresses of All Time’
“There’s a natural quality to Mary Beth’s work that I just adore. Doesn’t matter how soapy the situation, her characters find themselves in, you believe this could be happening to your best friend, your sister, your daughter, your mother. And no matter how tragic a story might be, there’s a constant spark in her eyes that tells you that her Kayla, her Katherine, her Sierra, always has some fight left in her.”
-Tom Casiello: (Casiello wrote for Evans on both ATWT and DAYS), Current Y&R Writer, Quote from welovesoaps.net, 1/5/10, Article naming Mary Beth one of the ‘Top 50 Daytime Actresses of All Time’
“She has a very natural style that would be well suited to film, and ATWT, as they so often have, really blew it by not holding on to her and utilizing her skills…I’d love to see her on the big screen.”
-Nelson Aspen, Quote from welovesoaps.net, 1/5/10, Article naming Mary Beth one of the ‘Top 50 Daytime Actresses of All Time’
“…Her ability to make you cry in one role and cringe in the other makes her a gem on daytime, or anytime.”
-Damon L. Jacobs, Quote from welovesoaps.net, 1/5/10, Article Naming Mary Beth one of the ‘Top 50 Daytime Actresses of All Time’
“I first saw Mary Beth as the second actress to play Dakota on RITUALS. When that show went off the air, Ken Corday quickly cast her as Kayla on DAYS OF OUR LIVES, again a recast. As with her RITUALS character, I quickly forgot there was another actress to have ever played the role. After a stint on GENERAL HOSPITAL, Evans played yet another recasted character on AS THE WORLD TURNS, Sierra. She won me over instantly and gave some powerful performances opposite some of the best actors in the industry.”
-Roger Newcomb, Quote from welovesoaps.net, 1/5/10, Article naming Mary Beth one of the ‘Top 50 Daytime Actresses of All Time’
“She was blonde and virginal without being boring.” -Paul Decker, Casting Director for “Santa Barbara” Talking about Mary Beth’s audition for the role of Laken on Santa Barbara. Mary Beth passed on the part and landed the role of Kayla on Days of our Lives.
-Soap Opera Digest, August 25, 1987
“It was the last day of casting before starting production and we were frantic to find our Piper. Mary Beth Evans walked in that morning and as soon as I saw her, I had all the other interviews cancelled.”
-Lovelines Producer Hal Taines in Lovelines Press Kit Production Notes
“There is so much sex appeal exploding from Mary Beth Evans as Leslie Detweiler, it would take two companies of firefighters to control the flames.”
-ReviewPlays.com May 2004
“Mary Beth Evans is sinfully sexy, as the conniving Leslie Detweiler.”
-Pat Taylor-Tolucan Times/Canyon Crier May 2004
RESPECT AND ADMIRATION FROM CO-WORKERS
“In my next life I want to come back as Mary Beth Evans. She is the healthiest human being I’ve ever met in my life. She takes nothing hard. Two days before she delivered her son, she did 100 pages of dialogue to cover her maternity leave without so much as a whimper, whine, or complaint. If her husband has to leave town for a few months of training- no problem! If the housekeeper catches the garbage on fire and the fence burns down- no big deal! She’s an astonishing human being. We have absolutely nothing in common, but I miss having her to learn from. I miss having her around to remind me how the other half lives, because I take everything hard.”
-Jane Elliot, (ex-Anjelica, Days; ex-Tracy, GH) Daytime TV, September 1989
“Mary Beth is one of those rare people who goes out of her way to get along with everyone. People are just drawn to her. They want to make sure that she’s always all right. I can’t explain it really, but she’s very relaxed. She makes everyone laugh and knows everyone by name…”
-Richard Biggs, (ex-Marcus, Days) Soap Opera Digest, August 22, 1989
“Mary Beth is a beautiful person inside. She’s incredibly real. She’s very open and full of joy and just lights up on camera. She’s very happy and fulfilled in her own life, and that shows.”
-Shelley Curtis, Soap Opera Digest, March 21 1989
“Mary Beth was one of those people who had a big impact on everyone at Days; it is going to be noticeably quieter and less bright without her.”
-Charles Shaughnessy (ex-Shane, Days) on Mary Beth’s exit from Days, Soap Opera Weekly, 1992
“She’s an absolute doll! She’s just a sweet girl from Pasadena. Her smile just lights up the room. Mary Beth is the kind of girl that you want under your Christmas tree! She’s the one that’s always doing the right thing and she has the cutest sense of humor. She is great.”
-Judi Evans (ex Adrienne, Days) Daytime TV/Days of Our Lives Magazine, 1987
“…Inevitably, whenever you’re working with Mary Beth, you can’t help becoming completely hysterical. She’s just a crack-up…working should be fun and Mary Beth keeps Stephen and everybody else from getting too serious.”
-Charles Shaughnessy, (ex-Shane Donovan, Days; ex-Maxwell on The Nanny) Soap Opera Digest, Aug. 22 1989
“Working with Mary Beth was the most pleasurable experience thus far in my soap experience. She has a beautiful way about her. Her vibrant energy and vulnerability make her an absolute perfect co-star. I hope and pray often that we will work together again soon.”
-Todd Rotondi (Ex-Bryant, ATWT) From His official web site: 3/13/01
“I love my scenes with Mary Beth. She is such a talented professional and brilliant to work with. Doing scenes with her really is just stepping into the world of Oakdale. She makes me totally believe she is my mom, I’m her daughter, and what’s going on in the scene is real while we’re doing it.”
-Peyton List (Lucy. ATWT) (Response to a fan letter, 1/31/03)
“Mary Beth is such a sweetheart and so great to work with. I’m happy to have her back and all to myself…She started working with other people and I got really jealous. It’s my mom!”
-Peyton List (Lucy, ATWT) in CBS Soaps In Depth, 11/30/04
How Has Mary Beth Evans reacted to the addition of a new lady from Steve’s past (Ava) “Mary Beth is a dream. A lot of actresses would react negatively and be hurt and feel threatened. Mary Beth doesn’t do any of that…She’s a great actress and she came up with amazing performances. The first time Tamara worked with Mary Beth, Tamara said to me, ‘My God! She is just great!'”
-Stephen Nichols, TV Soap, June 2008
“Mary Beth, she is just the most positive human being. She is a joy to work with. She makes me laugh. If Mary Beth is on the set that day, I am going to smile, and that is a gift.”
-Tamara Braun (Ex-Ava, Days), TV Soap, June 2008
“Her carefree attitude is totally refreshing. A lot of beautiful women in Hollywood tend to take themselves a bit too seriously, but Mary Beth is the antithesis of that. She’s wonderful to everybody. I’ve never heard anybody say anything about her other than, ‘Wow! That Mary Beth’.“
-Billy Warlock (AJ, GH; ex-Frankie, Days) in Soap Opera Magazine, circa 1997 (Most Beautiful Women Issue)
“Mary Beth should be the next Lucille Ball. She has more facial expressions than anyone I’ve ever met. She cracks me up all the time. She’s very open and tells it like it is.”
-Robert Sloan (Days makeup artist), Soap Opera Digest, Aug. 22 1989
“Mary Beth makes me laugh a lot. She is hysterical…”
-GH hairstylist Michael Anton, August 10, 1999, Soap Opera Digest
“Goofy! I took her out on my boat a couple of months ago and soaked her down. She’s always a good sport, and always makes me laugh.”
-Kin Shriner, Scotty on GH (who worked opposite Mary Beth on both RITUALS and GH), Quote from welovesoaps.net, 1/5/10, Article Naming Mary Beth one of the ‘Top 50 Daytime Actresses of All Time’
“There she was in that long tight gown and veil all day long and she never did anything but have a good time. She was smiling and laughing. But then again, Mary Beth is always like that. She never complained once.”
-Joy Garrett, Daytime TV, December 1988
“She’s so incredible.”
-Stephen Nichols, People Are Talking (Boston Talk show), February 19, 1990
“Mary Beth and I have always been friends. After what Kayla and Jack went through together, we kept our characters true right to the end. No matter how our characters changed, you could always tell something had happened between them. And we both respected our characters’ history. Most of my fan mail asks when I’ll be in a storyline with Mary Beth. I’ve really enjoyed watching her play Katherine and I’m looking forward to working with her.”
-Matthew Ashford, TV SOAP Magazine (Australia), November 1995
“..An actress who is always there. Evans is a marvel. Professional, talented, a dream combination.”
-Leigh McCloskey (ex-Damian, General Hospital) Orlando Sentinel, November 8, 1993
“Mary Beth I adore, and she’s very fluid to work with…I always feel, especially in certain scenes, like we’re dancing together. I find Mary Beth very easy to connect with.”
-Leigh J. McCloskey Soap Opera Update, March 22, 1994
CBS Soaps In Depth Asked: “What daytime star would you most like to share a scene with?” “…Mary Beth Evans, who I’ve always wanted to work with again.”
-The late Richard Biggs (ex-Marcus, Days; said when he was on GL) October, 2002
“My first scenes were with Hunt Block and Mary Beth, who are both amazing, amazing actors, and I’m just like, ‘Hi‘.”
-Peyton List (Lucy, As The World Turns) Soap Opera Digest, 9/3/02
“I’ve learned that this can be really fun. Mary Beth is really a happy and animated person, and she keeps it loose. Just have fun and be yourself. That’s what I’ve learned from Mary Beth.”
-Tyler Christopher, July 13, 1999 Issue of Soap Opera Digest (He was asked what he learned from Mary Beth)
“Mary Beth Evans is one of the funniest, craziest, down to earth people I’ve ever met. She’s a lot of fun to work with. She’s also a great actress.”
-Tyler Christopher (June, 1997 issue) Soap Opera Digest
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Deidre Hall’s (Marlena, Days) Introduction to Mary Beth Evans on the Air America internet radio show “Hollywood Clout” April 17, 2009 (Deidre hosted for the week):
“And if you don’t know by now, Mary Beth Evans, one of my favorite people on the earth, who played…you’ll know her as Kayla Brady, and is an amazing woman, a darling mother, an entrepreneur, she’s had her own business- she’ll talk about that, she has a new backyard project – she’ll talk some about that…”
Deidre’s intro about Mary Beth just before her segment (same show):
“Its so much fun to talk to people that you know and love on the radio. I want you to meet somebody who ALWAYS makes me laugh, always makes me smile, who is more fun to stand across from than anybody that I know, She is the female heartbeat of Days of our Lives. She is someone that you have loved and followed for years and years and years. You’ll know her possibly as Kayla Brady, but it’s Mary Beth Evans. Mary Beth, say hi.”
Later in the show Deidre Hall says:
“What people don’t know is she will walk through the room, the make up room at Days of our Lives, and when she leaves people just say ‘Don’t you just LOVE her? Don’t you LOVE her?’…. (To Mary Beth) You are the most natural, authentic person we all know.”
At the end of the interview (Deidre tells Mary Beth):
“I am so proud of you. I love being around you, listening to you, being a part in saluting your success. You’re a dream girl. I’m crazy about you.”
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“Those Lips…she’s got the sexiest lips in the world.”
-The late Richard Biggs (ex-Marcus, Days) in Soap Opera Update
“Mary Beth and I spend a lot of time together and she’s just the sweetest woman- a great person and a great Mom.”
-Leslie Horan (ex-Miranda, General Hospital) in Soap Opera Update
Peter Reckell (Bo Brady, Days) is asked, “Is there anyone else that you would like to come back to the show?” “Kayla – my sister, Kayla. I miss her…Mary Beth is such a wonderful actress, and a fun spirit. We always had an interesting time on the set.”
-December 8, 2002, Online Soap Chat Awards /Chat Transcript
“Mary Beth Evans is one of the funniest people on the show to work with. She’s very very energetic.”
-From the 8/24/98 Online Tyler Christopher Fan Club Chat
“I’d enjoy working with Mary Beth Evans. She’s a major pro.”
-Wally Kurth (Ned, General Hospital; ex-Justin, Days) in Soap Opera Weekly, November 13, 1990 (before they worked together on GH)
“I love Mary Beth Evans. I have a huge crush on her; I tell her all the time. I think she’s beautiful and she’s a very good actress…”
-Sean Kanan (ex AJ, General Hospital) in Soap Opera Update
“She is one of the sweetest, funniest people I’ve worked with. I miss working with her. She always makes it absolutely fun.”
-John J York (Mac, General Hospital), Soap Opera Magazine, 1997
“I miss Mary Beth’s laughter. She always has something funny to say, or is ready to cheer you up. I even miss when she’d break me up right before we’d have to tape a scene and the director would give us a stern look.”
-Wally Kurth (Ned, General Hospital), Soap Opera Magazine, 1997
“…Kay also finds in truly amusing that his best verbal sparring partner on the show is Mary Beth Evans- his real life cousin by marriage! ‘I love our dueling, but she gets upset,’ he reveals. ‘She’s like, {‘ ‘I can’t talk to you like that!’} ‘We are incredibly close.”
-Stephen T. Kay (Reginald, the Q Butler on GH) Soap Opera News, Jan 12, 1999
“It was terrible,” sighs the actor. “Not only for me, but for a lot of people around here. So, a couple of weeks before she left, I went around with a video camera, and I put a little sign on it that said, ‘I will miss Mary Beth because…’ And you could just see the looks on people’s faces the instant they saw the question because she was one of those people who kept everybody feeling good around here; such a great spirit and funny as hell.”
-Stephen Nichols on Mary Beth’s Exit from GH, Soap Opera Digest, November 19, 1999
“I love Mary Beth! Mary Beth is great!”
-Wally Kurth on his SoapNet Show, “1 Day With…” (Spending the day with Arianne Zucker, Mary Beth’s co-star in The Tangled Snarl/Murder Me Once)
“She’s got a sweet genuine heart. She’s a mother who loves her family. We have all these common things to share. Plus, we have a lot of fun working with each other. Mary Beth is a hoot. I think what the (General Hospital writers) are doing is letting a lot of John and Mary Beth into our characters, which makes for some very funny, real moments.”
-John J. York (Mac, GH) in Austin American Statesman, Jul 30, 1995
During a chat hosted by his web site, on 8/16/05 John J. York (Mac, GH) replies to a fan’s question about what he thought of the Kat and Mac story, and Mary Beth (*quote used by permission of the webmaster): “Mary Beth is a hoot to work with. We always kept each other laughing. I got to see her recently while doing a segment on SoapTalk. She gets more beautiful every time I see her, and she still makes me laugh. I liked Mac & Katherine together. For whatever reason, the relationship wasn’t as developed as we would have liked it to be, but it all worked out in the end.”
In a mini-interview with Kelly Menighan Hensley about her Emmy nom, she was asked, “Any special congratulatory calls stand out?” She said, “Mary Beth [Evans] and Maura called and made me cry.”
-Kelly Mennighan Hensley (Emily, ATWT) Soap Opera Digest May, 2008
In Soap Opera Digest, the ROUNDUP feature asks: What actor or actress on another soap would you want to work with?
-Robert Woods (who plays Bo on OLTL and played Paul on Days) picked Mary Beth (as Katherine on GH)
“I just think she is great to watch. I knew her from Days of Our Lives (as Kayla) and I like watching her on GH.”
-Bob Woods 2/23 Soap Opera Digest
“I am so excited. I’ve wanted to work with Mary Beth for so long.”
-Robert S. Woods (Bo, OLTL) commenting on Mary Beth joining OLTL, ABC Soaps In Depth, 8/31/04 (Mary Beth ended up not joining OLTL after all)
“..Also, the first time I worked with my mother, Mary Beth Evans (Sierra), I remember hoping she was my love interest. It was a huge challenge not to make out with her the first time we had to kiss. Maybe we’ll play a role as lovers in a film someday!”
-Todd Rotondi (ex-Bryant, ATWT) from an interview at www.soapdom.com recalling fond memories of his days on the soap.
“From an artistic standpoint, the first time we kissed was one of the best days I ever had. I was the biggest supporter of that [plot]. The younger man/older woman thing’s played a million times, but there was something special about this.”
-Tyler Christopher ABC SOAPS IN DEPTH, August 10, 1999 (Talking about working with Mary Beth in the Nik/Katherine pairing)
“I was working with Mary Beth Evans as you know. It was ‘Welcome to the show, Coltin, you’re going to be naked your first week on the set.’ I had John Ingle, Billy Warlock, all these guys coming up to me saying, ‘We’ve been trying to kiss this girl for a year and here you come naked with her for the first 3-4 days.’ She’s a sweetheart, a lot of fun to work with.”
-Coltin Scott Martines (Nik #2, GH) on Soap Talk (Soap Net Talk Show- 6/24/02)
“Everybody said, ‘You got to kiss the best woman on your first day.’ She’s the big kisser on the show, if you will.”
-Coltin Scott (first scenes as Nikolas were kissing Mary Beth as Katherine). Soap Opera Weekly, September 7, 1999
“My first day, I was half naked, kissing Mary Beth Evans. And my second day, I was half naked, kissing Mary Beth Evans. So it’s been a great couple of days!”
-Coltin Scott (Nikolas #2, GH), Soap Opera Digest July 20, 1999
Soap Opera Weekly asks Coltin Scott (Nik #2, GH) Your first scenes with Mary Beth were pretty hot and heavy. Did that add to your nervousness? “Not really. I knew, obviously, having read through the script, that I was going to be kissing her and stuff. And I was completely fine with that. Mary Beth made it easy for me…”
-Coltin Scott, Soap Opera Weekly, Sept 7, 1999
“We actually flew next to Mary Beth Evans on the way to New York. She’s so nice!”
-Marisa Ramirez (ex-Gia, General Hospital, and her real life boyfriend) ABC Soaps In Depth, August 7, 2001
In a Soap Opera Digest online chat, Judi Evans Luciano (ex Paulina, AW; ex-Adrienne, Days) is asked: When you were on Days, we thought there was a resemblance between you and MB Evans. Are you sisters, or cousins? Judi Evans Luciano: “Not even close! Nothing! Everyone thought that, but no. Blond, blue-eyed girls from California, but that’s it. As far as we know, no, we’re not related. But thanks, because I think she’s very beautiful, so to say we look alike or somewhat alike– that makes me feel great, thanks!”
-9/21/99 Soap Opera Digest Online
“She recently returned to Days of our Lives after a long absence much to everyone’s glee, and it seemed as if not a day had gone by since she left. She is still beautiful, still completely Kayla, and still a lot of guys’ secret crush.”
-Ken Corday, Days of our Lives’ executive producer, in his book “The Days of our Lives” 2010
MARY BETH IN HER OWN WORDS
“Growing up, I had big lips that were always chapped and always bright red. With a totally albino face and albino hair, I looked like an alien and was called every name in the book. I can’t repeat most of them; they were terrible. So I was always a daydreamer. I had a big imagination. My best friend says the first time she ever saw me in high school I was standing backstage at West Side Story wearing a surgeon’s shirt with overalls over it, big blue fluffy slippers and a top hat. She introduced herself because she thought I was such an interesting, odd person, but that was just the way I did things. I’m still like that. I’ll wear my big blue galoshes when it’s not raining, because I like them. I don’t have any rules I guess. I think my family was surprised when I married the first person I fell madly in love with and that I’m still married. I think it amazes them that I’m successful, because I was never in the category of Most Likely to Succeed. I live totally in the moment; I have no foresight or hindsight whatsoever….”
-Mary Beth in Soap Opera Magazine
“I teach my kids to be positive. I say, ‘Look at this day! Is this the most beautiful day you have ever seen?’ I teach my children to appreciate each moment. That’s the most important thing I can give them.”
-Mary Beth in Soap Opera Magazine, 1997
“I just don’t want to be obsessive about wrinkles, or be out shopping because I’m bored. I want to feel full. That’s always my pursuit, to feel fulfilled.”
-Mary Beth, from an interview with SoapTown USA, 11/21/05
“I always thought I could have it all, and I think that’s what’s really cool…and I think that moms, that’s always a struggle for women, can you have your career can we have kids, can you be married, can you do all these things and I always just assumed you could, and pursued it that way. And luckily it’s worked out, but like I said, my priorities have always been my family first….”
-Mary Beth, Air America internet radio show “Hollywood Clout”, April 17, 2009
“..My kids were in art school when they were little and the teacher used to say halfway through a drawing…’And your success on this?’ And I used to seriously think, hmm… what does she mean exactly? And now I feel like these things, you say to yourself when you have these little accomplishments, and my success is ‘well I never thought I could do something like that and I pulled it off and wow‘, you know I think we all have to do these little challenges…So today I am a photographer for a magazine, I have no idea what I am doing (laughs), but it’s so exciting… all these little things, you know you have to challenge yourself and be scared and hack at it and throw it out there and it’s like wow, ya, exciting!”
-Mary Beth, Air America internet radio show “Hollywood Clout”, April 17, 2009
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