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" People often expect me to be something other than what I am. "
Melissa Leo
I Am
Something
People
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" I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And it was a scene that, when we were shooting it, we knew that it wasn't working. We knew there was a disagreement between the actor and director. So, we went back. "
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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. "
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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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" The climate informs the character. "
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" My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked. "
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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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" I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in. "
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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 think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. "
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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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" The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is. "
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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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" 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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" You have to let the costume inform you. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. "
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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. "
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" I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism. "
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Got
" Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support. "
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" 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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Me
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" 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 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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