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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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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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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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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I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling.
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I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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I'm not really used to that, but I can't control weather. You have to work through it, and do the best you can. I'm sure it's a lot cooler in the summer, but what can I do? I just dealt with it.
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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
