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" 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
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" I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director. "
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" More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife. "
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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 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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Weather
Too Much
" That's what acting is. You're not alone. It's reacting. That's what we do. "
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Reacting
You
" 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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Ice Cream
Pleasure
" 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. "
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Care
Need
Take Care
" 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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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. "
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Feel
Think
Fun
" I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. "
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Direct
Very
Me
" 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
" 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
" People often expect me to be something other than what I am. "
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I Am
Something
People
" 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
" 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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Game
Actor
Salesman
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Funny
Spiritual
Healing
" 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. "
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Way
Time
Back
" 'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors. "
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Experience
Left
Show
" 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
" 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
" 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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Like
Everyone
Wish
" 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. "
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Struggle
Time
Love
" Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. "
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Going
Like
Actor
" 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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Character
Emotions
Understand
" 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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Head
Dirt
Character
" Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support. "
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Building
You
Without
" You have to let the costume inform you. "
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Costume
You
Inform