Quotes by Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo

“I’m going to show you I haven’t given you permission because clearly you’re not grown up enough to understand that, not having given you permission, you can’t just come look in my house.” And I won’t know if they’re coming and looking or not… so I put a piece of tape over it.

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Tape

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

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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.

Acting

Play

School

As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there’s nothing to play – and we are playing. We know that. Whether you think we do or not, we know that.

Emotion

Sand

Thinking

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It’s a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

Finding Yourself

Lonely

Thinking

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

Actors

Playgrounds

Recess

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.

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Struggle

Years

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. 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.

Acting

School

Struggle

I definitely consider myself a Method actor, because of my training. I might dispute what people consider a Method actor to be. For my money, a Method actor is an actor who has a technique. That has a method. And not one method, but whatever might be required. So a Method actor is always learning.

People

Training

I do, however, have tape over my eyepiece as well. What I think my peace is saying isn’t, “Oh I have something to hide. I don’t want you to look,” it’s more saying, “No thank you. I prefer you not look. I’m not giving you permission.”

Giving

Tape

Thinking

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Morning

My Way

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Quotes by Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo

“I’m going to show you I haven’t given you permission because clearly you’re not grown up enough to understand that, not having given you permission, you can’t just come look in my house.” And I won’t know if they’re coming and looking or not… so I put a piece of tape over it.

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

As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there’s nothing to play – and we are playing. We know that. Whether you think we do or not, we know that.

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It’s a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

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

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.

I definitely consider myself a Method actor, because of my training. I might dispute what people consider a Method actor to be. For my money, a Method actor is an actor who has a technique. That has a method. And not one method, but whatever might be required. So a Method actor is always learning.

I do, however, have tape over my eyepiece as well. What I think my peace is saying isn’t, “Oh I have something to hide. I don’t want you to look,” it’s more saying, “No thank you. I prefer you not look. I’m not giving you permission.”

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