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" I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. "
Melissa Leo
Direct
Very
Me
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" 'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors. "
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" 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. "
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You
Television
" I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in. "
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Anything
Too Much
" 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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Emotions
Understand
" If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. "
Melissa Leo
Guilt
Ice Cream
Pleasure
" You have to let the costume inform you. "
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Costume
You
Inform
" 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. "
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Difficult
Me
Hippie
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Act
Girl
Lucky
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Start
World
Myself
" More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife. "
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Mother
More
Wife
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Funny
Spiritual
Healing
" The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking. "
Melissa Leo
Listening
Acting
Key
" I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director. "
Melissa Leo
Fond
Particularly
Hybrid
" There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none. "
Melissa Leo
Enough
None
Now
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
World
People
Better
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
People
Rest
I Am
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Live
Clean
Sometimes
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Nap
Hustle
I Can
" 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
" My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it. "
Melissa Leo
Care
Need
Take Care
" Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment. "
Melissa Leo
Entertainment
Cry
Acting
" Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. "
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Going
Like
Actor
" I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke. "
Melissa Leo
Struggle
Time
Love
" 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
" Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. "
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Learn
Acting
Back
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Rock
Weather
Too Much
" Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.' "
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Real
Play
People
" 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 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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Live
Eyes
Face
" 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. "
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Always
Ride
Strange