Melissa Leo Quotes
The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
Melissa Leo
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
Lance Gross
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I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
Eddie Redmayne
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
Pamela Stephenson
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
Ira Glass
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
A. S. Byatt
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I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
Action Bronson
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Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time to deploy what I call their 'poetry deflector shields' that were installed in high school - there's little time to resist the poem.
Billy Collins
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I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like, 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time.
Meek Mill
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It's cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.
Calvin Johnson
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
Melissa Leo
