Melissa Leo Quotes

I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.

Melissa Leo

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• I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Writing
  • Mystery
  • Half

• I want audiences to see me in different avatars.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Different
  • Want
  • Me

• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Things
  • While

• I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Pride
  • Laugh
  • Marry

• Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • School
  • News
  • Gender

• Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • American
  • English
  • Born

• I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.

  

  Kaki King
  • Great
  • Past
  • Pain

• I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.

  

  Maggie Williams
  • People
  • Long
  • Focus

• What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • People
  • High
  • Last

• Kris Dunn is a very athletic point guard.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Very
  • Point
  • Guard

• I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Movie
  • Road
  • New York

• I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Desire

• Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movies are becoming more diverse with more viewers overseas.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Movies
  • Chinese
  • Lucky

• 'In the fitful light of the dusky hall the newcomer's face suddenly appeared fiery-eyed and menacing, and, glancing at a portrait of Mephistopheles, Rosamond exclaimed, 'Why, you are the very image of Meph-'

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Why
  • Light

• We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Up
  • Country

• It's all about the crowd and what type of event I am DJing. If it's a corporate party, I keep things upbeat but light. For late night events, I really turn it up with dance songs and trap hits.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Night
  • Light

• My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

  

  Dick York
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Waves

• When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • People
  • Women
  • Sorry

• The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

  

  Alain Aspect
  • Society
  • Revolution
  • Inventions

• I think breakfast is really important to get a great start to the day, so I can have enough energy to train and everything.

  

  Jordyn Wieber
  • Great
  • Important
  • Energy

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Important
  • Spirit
  • Acting