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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" You have to let the costume inform you. "

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

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

" An actor's life is fairly lonely. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living. "

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

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

" I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director. "

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

" I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art. "

" 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. "

" 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. "