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" More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife. "
Melissa Leo
Mother
More
Wife
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" 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
Me
Queen
" 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
" 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
" My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked. "
Melissa Leo
Mom
Paved
Road
" 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
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Way
Time
Back
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Difficult
Me
Hippie
" An actor's life is fairly lonely. "
Melissa Leo
Life
Actor
Lonely
" 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 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
" The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking. "
Melissa Leo
Listening
Acting
Key
" Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. "
Melissa Leo
Going
Like
Actor
" The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is. "
Melissa Leo
Know
Television
Even
" 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
" 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
Like
Everyone
Wish
" Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment. "
Melissa Leo
Entertainment
Cry
Acting
" I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. "
Melissa Leo
Acting
Glamour
I Think
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Ask
You
Now
" That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. "
Melissa Leo
Secret
Actor
Acting
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Life
Conflict
Woman
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
School
Face
You
" Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. "
Melissa Leo
Learn
Acting
Back
" You have to let the costume inform you. "
Melissa Leo
Costume
You
Inform
" 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
" People often expect me to be something other than what I am. "
Melissa Leo
I Am
Something
People
" 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
Live
Eyes
Face
" Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support. "
Melissa Leo
Building
You
Without
" 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. "
Melissa Leo
Know
Why
Role
" I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism. "
Melissa Leo
Mary
Like
Got
" There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none. "
Melissa Leo
Enough
None
Now