Zitat des Tages von Melissa Leo:
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.
That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.
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.
I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.
My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked.
The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.
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.
You know, when I got started on television in the '80s, you would go to the costume department, and if you were a female they put you into a skirt. And you had a pocketbook, usually a shoulder bag.
There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.
Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.
The climate informs the character.
I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.
I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.
I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.
