Melanie Lynskey Quotes

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.

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.

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

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.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

People in New Zealand go out of their way to not be impressed by things.

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people. If ever I had a choice between two movies, I'd try to do whatever was the opposite of what I did last time.

People have something on their mind. It almost feels [on marches against now-President Donald Trump] like after-tragedy. People seem sort of preoccupied.

Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.

I feel so lucky to have done so many things that I love in the past few years so I'm just going to keep trying to do them.

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.

I always like [while filming] to have a sense of what led this person to this point.

For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."

I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.

I feel like I'm always put with someone who's like, "Come on! Please be happy!".

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."

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."

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.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

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.

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.

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.

There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.

New Zealanders can be a little hostile.

I've done a gazillion readings that have gone on to be movies that are made without me.

Some scripts are pretty sparse.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

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.

I was a very independent teenager.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.

I feel like a character actress - it's where I'm comfortable.

I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

I guess I have a strong constitution.