Melissa Leo Quotes

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Melissa Leo

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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Trying
  • History
  • Wife

• When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Important
  • Alone
  • Acting

• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Acting
  • Profession
  • Singular

• 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
  • Reality
  • Acting
  • Dreams

• 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
  • Stop
  • Learning
  • Listening

• 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
  • Life
  • Important
  • Choices

• 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
  • Feeling
  • Feel
  • Talking

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Reality
  • Know
  • Talking

• Well, my brother started acting before I did.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Brother
  • Acting
  • Before

• Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Guy
  • You
  • Acting

• Maybe Trump isn't a racist in private. But he's sure acting like one in public. And his body language is corroborating the evidence.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Language
  • Body
  • Acting

• As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Long
  • Acting

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Father

• Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Team
  • Acting

• I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • School
  • Acting
  • Own

• I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Music
  • Long
  • Love

• A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Acting
  • Publicity
  • Flair

• I will do plays as long as they're interested in having me do them. It's the biggest opportunity to learn the most about how to act. Something I discover every time I'm doing one is how little I know about acting - how important the art of listening is, and how important it is to listen with your entire body. You can tell so much of a story with stillness, and a lot of that can be from really actively listening to your scene partner.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • God
  • Men
  • Live

• There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.

  

  Craig Brewer
  • Movie
  • Person
  • Movies

• I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Benefit

• The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Talking