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I was an extremely fortunate young woman as an actor. I got a job at The Public Theater and I also landed a job on a soap opera.

— Melissa Leo

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I just want a straight-up truth,.I don’t need a lot of compliments on what’s working, I probably know that it’s working.

I understand the value of humor and I do believe laughter is a good medicine.

It’s a judgment about the character, and no, you can’t come into the character judging them as you’re playing them. That’s the film-maker’s job to choose the tone in which the character is seen.

It’s a difficult thing for a woman to say, because I would really like more working women in all kinds of jobs, being a working woman myself.

If you can’t separate yourself and learn from what either worked or didn’t work you probably shouldn’t be acting in the first place, It’s a tool to learn.

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