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I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds.

~Melissa Leo

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I can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It's something I've always been good at.

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I know what it meant to me to play the Reverend Mother, a role I've, in some ways, prepared a lifetime to do. It's why I took the part.

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I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

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Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

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Hire me for the next picture. I don't have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That's all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It's a part of selling the film.

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Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.

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I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States.

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I know that one of my difficulties as an actor is to try to do too much, from all those years ago when my acting took place live on a stage. It was just my shiny face there, so you've gotta be super careful how much over-expressing you're doing with your eyes and nose and so on.

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You have to let the costume inform you.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: September 14th, 1960

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