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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.

— 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.

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.

Television can be a very frustrating job for almost anybody working in television, because you’re shooting episodically, and you don’t know one scene from the next, and maybe they change around.

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