I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote ‘Virgin Mary,’ but no Catholicism. Melissa Leo Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Acting, it’s hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment. Melissa Leo Read Quote
To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it’s only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter. Melissa Leo Read Quote
More often, I’m asked to play somebody’s mother, somebody’s partner, somebody’s wife. Melissa Leo Read Quote