Melissa Leo Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

  Melissa Leo

  Believe, Secret, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Melissa Leo

  Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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

  School, Play, Acting

  "Melissa Leo’s Golden Moment". Interview With Daniel D’addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2010.

• The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

  Melissa Leo

  Keys, Talking, Listening

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, Acting, Way

• I love acting. I really do. I think that's maybe the one thing that is known about me.

  Melissa Leo

  Thinking, Acting, One Thing

  "Amy Adams, Mark Wahlberg, David O. Russell, Melissa Leo and Christian Bale Interview THE FIGHTER; Read or Listen to a Great Press Conference". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 5, 2010.

• 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

  Spiritual, Art, Healing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Melissa Leo

  Struggle, School, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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