Melissa Leo

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#back #business #learn #ourselves #reflected

An actor's life is fairly lonely. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#fairly #life #lonely

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#being #going #like #movie #movie set

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#anybody #back #fair #frozen #get

I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#climbing #close #close friends #find #friends

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#better #black #groups #i #indians

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#everybody #getting #glamour #i #i think

I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#act #around #gets #girl #i

I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#hybrid #i #particularly

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#am #ashamed #given #habit #had