Melissa Leo Quotes
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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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 am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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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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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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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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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
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Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
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It's hard as a young person of a different ethnicity or background to look at the TV and not see anyone who looks like you. Representation is very important.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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Books are the mirrors of the soul.
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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
