Melissa Leo Quotes
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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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.
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The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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Tolerance is the assumption of superiority
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People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
