Melissa Leo Quotes

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

An actor's life is fairly lonely.

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

I'd definitely love to do more acting. My heart cries out for it; it's such a deep longing.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

With acting, I didn't get much from it.

Oh, yes - being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in it.

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

Actors, after all, dream.

We lived and breathed acting.

I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

The amount of effort and energy that goes into being an actor is something that I can't compare to anything else.

I am an actor, and although I love music, and at times can't live without it, I eat, sleep, breath, sweat, and bleed acting.

I love acting. I can't believe how fun it is and how in-the-zone I am when I'm doing it.

Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.

I love acting, but the star part is not my bag.

For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

I've always loved acting, and I do respect the craft.

Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.

If you are a musician, you practise your instrument every day, but actors can't be on a set every day. Theatre is a way for me to keep practising my art form.

I don't think acting's difficult. It's not like learning to walk on your hands.