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.

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• Melissa Leo:

  I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. M

• Melissa Leo:

  Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing o

• Melissa Leo:

  You know, when I got started on television in the '80s, you would go to the costume department, and

• Melissa Leo:

  People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

• Melissa Leo:

  An actor's life is fairly lonely.

• Melissa Leo:

  I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

• Melissa Leo:

  I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

• Melissa Leo:

  The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

• Melissa Leo:

  I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-y

• Melissa Leo:

  I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.