Melanie Lynskey Quotes
I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.
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The only way to really portray a character and tell a story well is to be flexible internally. And one of the ways we're blocked as actors is being aware of where our bodies are carrying tension.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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Only out of great vulnerability do you discover what strength you have. Having a daughter who I love with all my being has helped me mine the source of that strength to previously unknown depths.
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I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
