Melanie Quotes

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health.

Love does not judge. Love promotes personal growth.

I've recently learned not to take things personally. We can get offended by anything if we want to.

I just do my best to react to chaos with love, and hopefully, other people will catch on and do things out of love too.

If you think about it, we are always centered in the middle of chaos. It never goes away.

With great influence comes great responsibility.

Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic.

I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

I didn't really want to act. Gerard Depardieu discovered me when I was 14 and asked if I wanted to make movies and I said, 'Why not?

When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a director. It's obviously too hard.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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.