American - Actress | September 14, 1960 -
The climate informs the character.
Melissa Leo
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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.
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I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.
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Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.
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You know, when I got started on television in the '80s, you would go to the costume department, and if you were a female they put you into a skirt. And you had a pocketbook, usually a shoulder bag.
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People often expect me to be something other than what I am.
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An actor's life is fairly lonely.
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I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.
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I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.
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The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.
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I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.
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I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.
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