American - Actress | September 14, 1960 -
Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support.
Melissa Leo
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I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And it was a scene that, when we were shooting it, we knew that it wasn't working. We knew there was a disagreement between the actor and director. So, we went back.
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Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.
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Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.
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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.
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To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.
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My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.
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Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes.
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My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it.
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I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.
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I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.
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That's what acting is. You're not alone. It's reacting. That's what we do.
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