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" I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character. "
Melissa Leo
Head
Dirt
Character
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" 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. "
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" Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in. "
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" The climate informs the character. "
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" 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. "
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Always
" 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 Can
" An actor's life is fairly lonely. "
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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. "
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Now
Experience
Mask
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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You
See
Run
" 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. "
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Ask
You
Now
" 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. "
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Live
Alone
Yourself
" 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. "
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School
Face
You
" 'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors. "
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Experience
Left
Show
" 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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Life
Conflict
Woman
" My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked. "
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Mom
Paved
Road
" I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. "
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" Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.' "
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" The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking. "
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Acting
Key
" 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. "
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Eyes
Face
" 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. "
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Know
Why
Role
" I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism. "
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Mary
Like
Got
" 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. "
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World
People
Better
" I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director. "
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Fond
Particularly
Hybrid
" 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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Picture
Me
Queen
" 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. "
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