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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
Love
You
Wonderful
School
Face
Cigarette
Cigarettes
Props
Since
Most
Smoke
Around
Greatest
Been
Up
Very
Just
Much
Acting
Your
Acting School
England
Actor
Ever
Play
Bring
Playing
Careful
If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt.
Melissa Leo
Guilt
Three
Pleasure
Week
Times
Cone
Get
Going
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Then
Two
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
Sad
You
Women
People
World
Better
Black
Unfair
Other
Indians
Part
Because
Real
Than
Mean
Groups
Treatment
An actor's life is fairly lonely.
Melissa Leo
Life
Lonely
Fairly
Actor
You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.
Melissa Leo
Me
You
Conversation
Mind
Starts
Blank
Question
Informed
Interested
Communicating
Ask
Popping
Now
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
Life
Alone
Time
You
Yourself
Lonely
Live
Think
Bit
Find
Lonely Life
Oddly
Lot
Quite
Often
Little
Little Bit
Strangely
Actor
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
Love
Time
Myself
Struggle
Say
Horrible
Given
Habit
Had
Picked
Smoke
Smoker
Am
Years
Up
Again
Ashamed
Then
Many
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
Melissa Leo
You
Believe
Secret
Make
Biggest
Themselves
Acting
Actor
Believes
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
Power
Our
Our Lives
Television
Powerful
Know
How
Even
Lives
Present
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
Life
Myself
Experience
Mask
Never
Glamour
Had
Female
Male
Male Actors
Lot
Than
Different
Regard
Many
Now
Actor
Actress
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 birth.
Melissa Leo
Me
Difficult
Birth
Out
Characters
Most
Most Difficult Thing
Hippie
Get
Choice
Certain
Thing
Difficult Thing
My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it.
Melissa Leo
Me
Care
Tool
Characters
Dreamt
Take
Take Care
Years
Done
Body
Speaking
Even
Ever
Things
Need
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
Time
Me
Back
Way
Says
Kinda
Something
River
Fair
Fair Amount
Got
Get
Just
Anybody
Frozen
Scripts
Turning
Hard
Who
Hard Time
Amount
I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.
Melissa Leo
Religion
Mary
Like
Catholicism
None
Got
Quote
Mean
Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.
Melissa Leo
Entertainment
Laugh
Hopefully
Miss
Cry
Make
Hit
Little
Them
Acting
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
Truth
Great
You
Yourself
Laughter
Somewhere
Medicine
Must
Only
Most
Reveal
Audience
Comic
Get
Gets
Themselves
Then
Your
Grotesque
More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife.
Melissa Leo
Mother
Wife
Somebody
Partner
More
Often
Asked
Play
I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.
Melissa Leo
Too Much
Too
Rarely
About
Know
Involved
Getting
Anything
Much
I can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It's something I've always been good at.
Melissa Leo
Myself
Good
Me
Hustle
Something
Nap
Around
Always
Been
Quietly
Bustle
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
Game
People
Real
Real People
Interesting
Really
Play
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
Family
Me
Mother
Nun
Back
States
Thrill
Lifetime
Generations
Unusual
Always
Reverend
Were
Wanted
Which
United
United States
Play
Thing
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
Life
Natural
Sometimes
Country
Live
Stay
Clean
Put
Hotels
Fairly
Chemical
Chemicals
Up
Get
Where
Holistic
Use
Used
Away
Things
Wayward Pines, I tell you, is a strange place, and the entry is always the hardest part. I was just going along for the ride.
Melissa Leo
You
Strange
Ride
Tell
Entry
Part
Along
Always
Going
Just
Place
Hardest
Hardest Part
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