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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
#Acting
#Face
#Love
#School
#Smoke
I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.
- Melissa Leo
#Actor
#Direct
#Director
#Like
#Me
I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.
- Melissa Leo
#Back
#Me
#River
#Time
#Way
I know what it meant to me to play the Reverend Mother, a role I've, in some ways, prepared a lifetime to do. It's why I took the part.
- Melissa Leo
#Know
#Me
#Mother
#Play
#Why
To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.
- Melissa Leo
#Character
#Emotions
#Own
#Understand
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
- Melissa Leo
#Acting
#Actor
#Believe
#Make
#Secret
People often expect me to be something other than what I am.
- Melissa Leo
#I Am
#Me
#Often
#People
#Something
I live in the country, and I live a fairly natural, holistic life. Sometimes I get put up in hotels where they use chemical sprays to clean things, or there are chemicals used that I stay away from.
- Melissa Leo
#Clean
#Country
#Life
#Live
#Sometimes
The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
- Melissa Leo
#Acting
#Key
#Listening
#More
#Talking
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 to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes.
- Melissa Leo
#Everyone
#Hope
#Repeat
#See
#Trying
I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.
- Melissa Leo
#Got
#Like
#Mean
#None
#Religion
Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.
- Melissa Leo
#Actor
#Being
#Like
#Playground
#Recess
My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.
- Melissa Leo
#Had
#Mom
#Paved
#Road
#She
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
#Habit
#Love
#Myself
#Struggle
#Time
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.
- Melissa Leo
#Better
#Black
#Sad
#Women
#World
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