69 Quotes by Melissa Leo

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes.

There were not enough women like Kay on TV and now there are none.

Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support.

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

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

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

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.

I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.

I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.