Melissa Leo Quotes

Let's just start and see what happens.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' and they're a really good doctor. But for the rest of us, it's a big question mark. Just giving yourself a break, letting yourself try new things, and when something doesn't work out, moving along... it's all we can really do.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

I've learned to never rule anything in or out.

I feel very open to trying new things.

I try not to stick to any one thing, you know. That's always been important to me.

I never rule anything out, you never know what's to come.

I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks.

I'll play it first and figure out what it's called later.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

I was always willing to say, "Let's see what happens," when something came up that looked like it might help me get a little closer to where I wanted to be . . .

When I started out as an actor I knew very little, which was probably a good thing. I was totally open. You don't judge yourself, you do it.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things being good is thinking that we know. And the more that we can remove any baggage we're carrying with us, and just be in the moment, use our ears, and pay attention to what's happening, and just listen to the inner voice that directs us, the better.

In 10 years, I don't really know what I'll be, and I like not having any idea. I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

I'm always open to trying out new things.