Melissa Leo Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1960

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We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together.

Jerry Stiller

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Iranians and Arabs aren't considered diversity because we still don't have minority status in America. There was a group of Middle Eastern actors trying to get SAG to recognize us as part of the diversity they should look out for, because we do represent a different point of view. When OscarsSoWhite happened, I felt part of that.

Maz Jobrani

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Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

John Linder

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I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect.

Steve Vai

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I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.

Mary Lambert

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I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

Jordan Peterson

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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

Dorothy Day

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I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.

Chris Wood

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My family moved a lot, so I was always walking in as the new kid.

Bozoma Saint John

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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

Arthur Henderson

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No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Pierre Bonnard

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