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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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" More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife. "

" People often expect me to be something other than what I am. "

" 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. "

" You have to let the costume inform you. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. "

" I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. "

" There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none. "

" Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. "

" If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. "

" My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked. "