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Melissa Leo Quotes - Page 2

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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

"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.

Melissa Leo
House, Tape, Looks
"Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden’s Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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.

Melissa Leo
Interviews, Documentaries, Snowden
"Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden's Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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.

Melissa Leo
Real, Responsibility, Character
"Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden’s Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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.

Melissa Leo
Eye, Levels, Care
"Matt Dillon, Carla Gugino, Melissa Leo, Toby Jones, Shannyn Sossamon and Tim Griffin Talk WAYWARD PINES, Working with M. Night, and More". Interview, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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.

Melissa Leo
Struggle, School, Acting
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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.

Melissa Leo
Thinking, Emotion, Sand
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I love acting. I really do. I think that's maybe the one thing that is known about me.

Melissa Leo
Thinking, Acting, One Thing
"Amy Adams, Mark Wahlberg, David O. Russell, Melissa Leo and Christian Bale Interview THE FIGHTER; Read or Listen to a Great Press Conference". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 5, 2010.

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