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" 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. "

Melissa Leo

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Eyes

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" An actor's life is fairly lonely. "

" You have to let the costume inform you. "

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

" I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing. "

" The climate informs the character. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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