It becomes more and more popular to call actors who play characters "character actors." But I've always been somebody who is much… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions,… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
You have this certain about of responsibility to play a fictitious character and you have a script that's guiding you and the… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I love acting. I really do. I think that's maybe the one thing that is known about me. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
That's what acting is. You're not alone. It's reacting. That's what we do. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I'm interested in what the fans think, in what would make them feel connected to the Wayward Pines they had grown to love. I… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back,… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I know that one of my difficulties as an actor is to try to do too much, from all those years ago when my… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
"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… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism. — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
The director is the captain of the ship, without question. No matter what their talent or energy level is, everyone on the crew has… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
