27 Melissa Leo Quotes for You to Enjoy

Melissa Leo

American Actress

Born: Sep 14, 1960

Acting Actor Life Love Me You

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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

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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

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An actor's life is fairly lonely. Melissa Leo

Life Lonely Fairly Actor

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

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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

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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

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The climate informs the character. Melissa Leo

Character Climate Informs

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

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I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors. Melissa Leo

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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

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism. Melissa Leo

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Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment. Melissa Leo

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To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter. Melissa Leo

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More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife. Melissa Leo

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I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in. Melissa Leo

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I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character. Melissa Leo

Work Love Character Down Dirt Head Particularly Go Ambitious Actress

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.' Melissa Leo

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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 be an actor. Melissa Leo

Game Sign Signed Pretend Sales Salesman Actor Why

I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States. Melissa Leo

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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

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