Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support.
I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And it was a scene that, when we were shooting it, we knew that it wasn't working. We knew there was a disagreement between the actor and director. So, we went back.
Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.
To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.
My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it.
I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.
You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.
Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.
To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.
I do wish everyone would call me Leo. It's not that I don't like Melissa. But the more I hear it called out, the worse it sounds.
If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt.
I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States.
As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.
Wayward Pines, I tell you, is a strange place, and the entry is always the hardest part. I was just going along for the ride.
