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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Melissa Leo

Feel

Think

Fun

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" You have to let the costume inform you. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Melissa Leo

Mother

Wife

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Melissa Leo

Direct

Very

" 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 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

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

" 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. "

Melissa Leo

Picture

Queen

" 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. "

" The climate informs the character. "