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" Hire me for the next picture. I don't have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That's all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It's a part of selling the film. "

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" 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

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Emotions

Understand

" 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. "

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

" There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none. "

" 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. "

" I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. "

Melissa Leo

Direct

Very

" 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 to shut down the world. "

" My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked. "

" People often expect me to be something other than what I am. "

" 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. "

" You have to let the costume inform you. "

" 'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Melissa Leo

Mother

Wife

" That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Melissa Leo

Mary

Got

" I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. "

" 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 had a lot of fun thinking about the first season. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know that one of my difficulties as an actor is to try to do too much, from all those years ago when my acting took place live on a stage. It was just my shiny face there, so you've gotta be super careful how much over-expressing you're doing with your eyes and nose and so on. "

" 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. "

" If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. "

" You know, when I got started on television in the '80s, you would go to the costume department, and if you were a female they put you into a skirt. And you had a pocketbook, usually a shoulder bag. "