Melissa Leo Quotes

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

Melissa Leo

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• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Help
  • Career

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Crazy
  • Acting
  • Industry

• It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Better

• I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Acting
  • Start

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • You
  • Acting

• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Know

• I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Home

• Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Powerful
  • Acting
  • Revolution

• You're more inclined to be cynical about your own country, and you romanticize it from the outside. And why not? It's much more interesting than thinking, 'Oh, everyone's struggling and normal.'

  

  Claire Foy
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Why

• Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe upon universe - and translates this into music.

  

  Patti Smith
  • World
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

  

  David Ferrer
  • Thinking

• One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Up
  • Thinking

• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Food

• There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think we spent around six hours at my house, and then we played all these tunes of mine that have never found any version. And "Heaven Without a Gun" is one of them, and it struck him. If you can find a compadre who doesn't live in the literal world 'cos you're not always fighting to explain yourself to make sense, that maybe it's the dyslexia, maybe it's the dreamer, maybe it's the idea that grammar was not your foreplay - excuse me - see what I mean, your forte.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Mean

• It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

  

  Ben Bradlee

• I wanted to become a teacher, like my mother, or a charity worker. But my mom says that when I was younger, I told her, 'People are going to know me,' so I guess I always had that idea.

  

  Doutzen Kroes
  • People
  • Mother
  • Mom

• Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

  

  Jonathan Carroll
  • Rest

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

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Glamour