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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An actor's life is fairly lonely. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "