Melissa Leo Quotes
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.
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I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.
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You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.
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I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
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Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.
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Whether the Sikhs want to worship in Wisconsin or the Christians want to worship in Texas or the Jews want to worship in New York, we're living under the magnificent umbrella of a Constitution that says we can.
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You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.
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If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,-then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
