Latest Melanie Lynskey Quotes from Interviews

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• I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Real, Character, Lovely

  "EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Lynskey Takes Us Up in the Air". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 9, 2010.

• Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Sometimes

  "EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Lynskey Takes Us Up in the Air". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 9, 2010.

• I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Past, Trying, Lucky

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I feel like any actor should always be thinking about how to serve the story. The thing to be cautious of is trying to make too much of your "moment," or whatever. The story is a lot bigger than you, and you're there to help it along. The thing to think about is whether what you're doing is true to the moment and where the story's going, rather than going, "Here are my scenes. What can I try and do to make the most of them?"

  Melanie Lynskey

  Thinking, Trying, Helping

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people. If ever I had a choice between two movies, I'd try to do whatever was the opposite of what I did last time.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Even though it's still, annoyingly, something everybody feels the need to bring up to anybody who doesn't look like a model, there are more women now who are super successful and have different body types. You know, like men do. That feels like progress to me.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Successful, Men, Progress

  Source: www.elle.com

• Honestly, I think if I had to stop acting I'd be like, 'Well, I guess I have to go live in the mountains now.' I'd probably be a good assistant.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Thinking, Acting, Mountain

  Source: www.elle.com

• There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of it. But there definitely were times when I would say something and [ Macon Blair] would say, "I didn't think to deliver it like that" or, "I didn't think it had that meaning." And he'd say, "I like it. I think it's good." So he's open. He's not battering it into you.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Home, Thinking, World

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I always like [while filming] to have a sense of what led this person to this point.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Persons

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I think there's so many little specific things in the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"]. And the script was also structured so beautifully that I didn't want to mess with it.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Home, Thinking, World

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."

  Melanie Lynskey

  Stories, Care, Intervention

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Sometimes, Blair, Come Up

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I feel like I'm always put with someone who's like, "Come on! Please be happy!".

  Melanie Lynskey

  Please, Feels

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• It's always nice for me to get to explore somebody who's feeling that and then does something with it and takes it in a different direction or does something with it. It feels very powerful. It helps me with my own.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Powerful, Nice, Feelings

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Struggle, Choices, Humanity

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."

  Melanie Lynskey

  Home, Two, World

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working."

  Melanie Lynskey

  Tired, The End Of The Day, Actors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• I felt like the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] was so clear. It was sort of packed full of information. [Macon Blair] puts in a lot of discussion in the script. Characters are introduced very thoughtfully. The way he described walking into particular environments was very specific.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Home, Character, World

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon Blair] wanted to tell. And then I had a meeting with him and understood how he likes to work. I really trusted him from the beginning.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Reading, Home, Stories

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• Some scripts are pretty sparse.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Scripts

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• People have something on their mind. It almost feels [on marches against now-President Donald Trump] like after-tragedy. People seem sort of preoccupied.

  Melanie Lynskey

  People, Mind, Tragedy

  Source: www.rogerebert.com