Melissa Leo Quotes

Acting is very immediate.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

It's a tremendous feeling walking on to a set with a live audience and making them laugh, but I love drama, and I love drama where there's the ability to bring comedy into it because in a lot of tragic circumstances in life there is comedy to be had.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I just love acting.

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing for me. If I'm doing action, or comedy, or something more heartfelt, it's a different approach, but it's all acting for me.

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

I love doing drama as much as I love doing comedy.

Every time you're on stage, you're acting.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

Acting is not about knowing all this stuff; it's about character.

I get to play a lot of hysterics.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

Class clowns become actors.

I played comedies and dramas.

Drama is something I'm good at, I guess.

The most difficult thing to do is drama.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.