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" I am that lucky woman who has been living my life all my life. Anything can happen now. Anything. And it will be only whip cream and delightful things. Even in the conflict and the hardship. "

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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

Laughter

Great

Truth

" Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. "

" You have to let the costume inform you. "

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

" That's what acting is. You're not alone. It's reacting. That's what we do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. "

Melissa Leo

Going

Actor

" The climate informs the character. "

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

" The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Difficult

Hippie

" I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds. "

Melissa Leo

Everyone

Wish

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

" 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. "

" 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 can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It's something I've always been good at. "

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

Melissa Leo

Mary

Got

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

" I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And it was a scene that, when we were shooting it, we knew that it wasn't working. We knew there was a disagreement between the actor and director. So, we went back. "

" 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 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. "

" Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support. "

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

" 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. "