#act

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

#acting school #actor #around #been #bring

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

— Melissa Leo

#back #business #learn #ourselves #reflected

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#experience #female #glamour #had #haven

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#acting #ancient #art #fundamentalist #funny

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#back #been #between #career #director

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

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#care #characters #done #dreamt #even

The climate informs the character. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#climate #informs

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#am #how #i #i am #i have learned

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#certain #characters #choice #cult thing #difficult