Melissa Leo Quotes

• 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.

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• I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather’s right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• An actor’s life is fairly lonely.

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

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• 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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• 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.

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• 1902 - Ralph Richardson
• 1955 - Rob Portman
• 1626 - Christina, Queen of Sweden
• 1972 - Alyssa Milano
• 1974 - Ricky Ponting

Deaths

• 1953 - Robert Millikan
• 1986 - Virginia C. Andrews
• 2002 - Lewis B. Smedes
• 1968 - Norman Thomas
• 1997 - Masaru Ibuka