Melissa Leo Quotes

There Is A Wealth Of Knowledge To Be Understood From Others' Work, Don't Get Me Wrong, And When I Do Stumble Upon Others' Work, It's Not Lost On Me.

As Actors, Emotion Is The Sand In The Sandbox For Us. Without Emotion, There's Nothing To Play - And We Are Playing. We Know That. Whether You Think We Do Or Not, We Know That.

I Am A Smoker, I'm Ashamed To Say. I Had Given It Up For Many Years, Then Picked It Up Again. It's A Horrible Habit. I Struggle With Myself All The Time. And I Love To Smoke. An Actor Has To Be Very, Very Careful, As One Of The Most Wonderful Props - And Actors Love Props - Is A Cigarette. There's So Much To Do With It: You Can Bring It Up To Your Face, Play With The Smoke. It's Just The Greatest - Ever Since I Was 16 And In Acting School In England, I've Been Playing Around With Cigarettes.

One Time, Many, Many Years Ago, I Had The Opportunity To Dye My Hair Brunette For A Film. And The Day I Walked Out Of The Hotel Where I Had It Done, I Walked Out Onto The Street And Realized People Looked Me In The Eye And Greeted Me Good Morning. I'd Never Had That Experience Before! And I Began To Notice That A Brunette Is Treated As An Affable Human Being. Later, When I Dyed My Hair For Lois Riley Blonde, And Then Alice Ward Blonde, People Come Right Up To You, They Touch You On The Arm, They Ask You How You're Doing. Men And Women Both! Blondes Have More Fun.

The Director Is The Captain Of The Ship, Without Question. No Matter What Their Talent Or Energy Level Is, Everyone On The Crew Has All Eyes On The Captain. If They Come In Going, "i Don't Know. Maybe We'll Do This. Maybe We'll Do That," You've Got 10 Days To Shoot And They Don't Care What You're Doing.

It's Not Exactly An Interview That's Going On [in Documentary]. I Guess We Do Ask Edward Snowden Some Questions And We're Recording Him Answering Them And So On Like That.

"i'm Going To Show You I Haven't Given You Permission Because Clearly You're Not Grown Up Enough To Understand That, Not Having Given You Permission, You Can't Just Come Look In My House." And I Won't Know If They're Coming And Looking Or Not... So I Put A Piece Of Tape Over It.

I Do, However, Have Tape Over My Eyepiece As Well. What I Think My Peace Is Saying Isn't, "oh I Have Something To Hide. I Don't Want You To Look," It's More Saying, "no Thank You. I Prefer You Not Look. I'm Not Giving You Permission."

I Don't Tend To Use Technology All That Much. Of Course, I Can't Avoid It - It's Called The Telephone Nowadays. And I Do A Certain Amount Of Email, Work-related Primarily, On It. But I Don't Do A Lot Of Looking For Things Online.

I Was Really Not Familiar At All With Edward Snowden. I Like To Get That Right Out Of The Way And Really Learned Most Of What I Know From Oliver's [stones] Script.

I Love Acting. I Really Do. I Think That's Maybe The One Thing That Is Known About Me.

You Have This Certain About Of Responsibility To Play A Fictitious Character And You Have A Script That's Guiding You And The Other Information Of The Custom Department's Choices, And The Set Department, "where Are You," And All Those Other Pieces Of Information But You Have To Cull From Your Imagination The Answer To All The Unasked Questions. And With A Real Person, There's Someone To Get That Information From, Perhaps.