Best 31 quotes of Melanie Lynskey on MyQuotes

Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon Blair] wanted to tell. And then I had a meeting with him and understood how he likes to work. I really trusted him from the beginning.

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.

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

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.

I feel like any actor should always be thinking about how to serve the story. The thing to be cautious of is trying to make too much of your "moment," or whatever. The story is a lot bigger than you, and you're there to help it along. The thing to think about is whether what you're doing is true to the moment and where the story's going, rather than going, "Here are my scenes. What can I try and do to make the most of them?

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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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'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.

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

I was a very independent teenager.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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