Melanie Lynskey Quotes
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For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.
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I feel like I'm always put with someone who's like, "Come on! Please be happy!".
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People have something on their mind. It almost feels [on marches against now-President Donald Trump] like after-tragedy. People seem sort of preoccupied.
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The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.
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I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.
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There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of it. But there definitely were times when I would say something and [ Macon Blair] would say, "I didn't think to deliver it like that" or, "I didn't think it had that meaning." And he'd say, "I like it. I think it's good." So he's open. He's not battering it into you.
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I felt like the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] was so clear. It was sort of packed full of information. [Macon Blair] puts in a lot of discussion in the script. Characters are introduced very thoughtfully. The way he described walking into particular environments was very specific.
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I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.
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Some scripts are pretty sparse.
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It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working."
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The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.
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I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.
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For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."
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I always like [while filming] to have a sense of what led this person to this point.
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It's always nice for me to get to explore somebody who's feeling that and then does something with it and takes it in a different direction or does something with it. It feels very powerful. It helps me with my own.
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I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.
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If I could be working every day, I would be.
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I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.
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I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."
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I think there's so many little specific things in the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"]. And the script was also structured so beautifully that I didn't want to mess with it.
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I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.
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I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.
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Honestly, I think if I had to stop acting I'd be like, 'Well, I guess I have to go live in the mountains now.' I'd probably be a good assistant.
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I've had a lot of struggles with depression. It's very easy for me to go to a bleak place, or for me to doubt humanity, myself, the world, my choices.
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I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
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I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.
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People in New Zealand go out of their way to not be impressed by things.
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I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You know, a woman who feels like a human being. That means so much to me.
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New Zealanders can be a little hostile.
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I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.
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