Melissa Leo Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“People often expect me to be something other than what I am.”

“The climate informs the character.”

“There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.”

“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.”

“To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.”

“An actor's life is fairly lonely.”

“I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.”

“I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.”

“I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.”

“My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.”