Melissa Leo Quotes

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• Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.
• 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.…
• The climate informs the character.
• That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
• 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…
• The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
• Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
• The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
• I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.
• An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's…
• There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.
• People often expect me to be something other than what I am.
• Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That…
• To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by…
• Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying…

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