#mo

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

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

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. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#could #entire #ever #everyone #filled

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 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

My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked. ↗

— Melissa Leo

#mom #paved #road #she #walked

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

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#folks #fringe #get #getting #harder

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#certain #computer #film #knows #more

Gossip is more popular than literature. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#literature #more #popular #than