Melissa Leo Quotes

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• That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

  Melissa Leo

  Believe, Secret, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

  Melissa Leo

  Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

  Melissa Leo

  Struggle, Years, Habit

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, Mind, Suffering

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

  Melissa Leo

  Keys, Talking, Listening

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

  Melissa Leo

  Powerful, Television, Know How

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The climate informs the character.

  Melissa Leo

  Character, Climate

  "Interview: Melissa Leo, Misty Upham and Courtney Hunt on “Frozen River”". Interview with Stephen Saito, www.ifc.com. July 29, 2008.

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• There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.

  Melissa Leo

  Wealth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.

  Melissa Leo

  Spiritual, Art, Healing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, Acting, Way

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• I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

  Melissa Leo

  Rocks, Climbing, Weather

  "Melissa Leo’s Golden Moment". Interview with Daniel D’Addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2010.

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• As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

  Melissa Leo

  Lonely, Thinking, Finding Yourself

  Source: collider.com

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• Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

  Melissa Leo

  Actors, Recess, Playgrounds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

  Melissa Leo

  School, Play, Acting

  "Melissa Leo’s Golden Moment". Interview With Daniel D’addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2010.

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• The director is the captain of the ship, without question. No matter what their talent or energy level is, everyone on the crew has all eyes on the captain. If they come in going, "I don't know. Maybe we'll do this. Maybe we'll do that," you've got 10 days to shoot and they don't care what you're doing.

  Melissa Leo

  Eye, Levels, Care

  "Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino, Melissa Leo, Toby Jones, Shannyn Sossamon and Tim Griffin Talk WAYWARD PINES, Working with M. Night, and More". Interview, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• You have this certain about of responsibility to play a fictitious character and you have a script that's guiding you and the other information of the custom department's choices, and the set department, "Where are you," and all those other pieces of information but you have to cull from your imagination the answer to all the unasked questions. And with a real person, there's someone to get that information from, perhaps.

  Melissa Leo

  Real, Responsibility, Character

  "Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden’s Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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• It's not exactly an interview that's going on [in documentary]. I guess we do ask Edward Snowden some questions and we're recording him answering them and so on like that.

  Melissa Leo

  Interviews, Documentaries, Snowden

  "Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden's Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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• "I'm going to show you I haven't given you permission because clearly you're not grown up enough to understand that, not having given you permission, you can't just come look in my house." And I won't know if they're coming and looking or not... so I put a piece of tape over it.

  Melissa Leo

  House, Tape, Looks

  "Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden’s Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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• I love acting. I really do. I think that's maybe the one thing that is known about me.

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, Acting, One Thing

  "Amy Adams, Mark Wahlberg, David O. Russell, Melissa Leo and Christian Bale Interview THE FIGHTER; Read or Listen to a Great Press Conference". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 5, 2010.

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• As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there's nothing to play - and we are playing. We know that. Whether you think we do or not, we know that.

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, Emotion, Sand

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

  Melissa Leo

  Struggle, School, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One time, many, many years ago, I had the opportunity to dye my hair brunette for a film. And the day I walked out of the hotel where I had it done, I walked out onto the street and realized people looked me in the eye and greeted me good morning. I'd never had that experience before! And I began to notice that a brunette is treated as an affable human being. Later, when I dyed my hair for Lois Riley blonde, and then Alice Ward blonde, people come right up to you, they touch you on the arm, they ask you how you're doing. Men and women both! Blondes have more fun.

  Melissa Leo

  Morning, Fun, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can't really gauge the difficulties of television. There's difficulties and joys that happen with an amazing, great team, when one is working. Television can be a very frustrating job for almost anybody working in television, because you're shooting episodically, and you don't know one scene from the next, and maybe they change around.

  Melissa Leo

  Team, Joy, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It becomes more and more popular to call actors who play characters "character actors." But I've always been somebody who is much more invested in who I am playing than how they look.

  Melissa Leo

  Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director, or actor-director. Writers, directors, actors are all such very different people. I think it's unusual that two of those people are in one human.

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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