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 think that hip-hop should be spelled with a capital "H," and as one word. It's the name of our black people culture, and it's the name of our identity and consciousness. I think hip-hop is not a product, but a culture. I think rap is a product, but when hip-hop becomes a product, that's slavery, because you're talking about people's souls. To me, that's the biggest problem.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Soul

• If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Painting

• ...learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery of God.

  

  E. Bernard Jordan
  • God
  • Different
  • Control

• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Learn
  • Fight

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

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Thinking
  • Acting
  • Glamour