American - Actress | September 14, 1960 -
You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.
Melissa Leo
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Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.
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To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.
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I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in.
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I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds.
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I can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It's something I've always been good at.
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I know what it meant to me to play the Reverend Mother, a role I've, in some ways, prepared a lifetime to do. It's why I took the part.
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I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.
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Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'
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Hire me for the next picture. I don't have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That's all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It's a part of selling the film.
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Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.
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I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States.
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