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

• So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Acting

• 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

• I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Love
  • Business
  • Acting

• 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

• I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Suffering

• No days such honored days as these! While yet Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide For some fair thing which should forever bide On earth, her beauteous memory to set In fitting frame that no age could forget, Her name in lovely April's name did hide, And leave it there, eternally allied To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Forever
  • Forget
  • Frame

• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • High
  • Space
  • Hand

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

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Glamour