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I guess I have a strong constitution.

Melanie Lynskey

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Melanie Lynskey
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: May 16
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Television Actor
Melanie Jayne Lynskey
Guess
Constitution
Strong

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I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.
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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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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.
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Even though it's still, annoyingly, something everybody feels the need to bring up to anybody who doesn't look like a model, there are more women now who are super successful and have different body types. You know, like men do. That feels like progress to me.
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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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Some scripts are pretty sparse.
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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 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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Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.
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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 read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.
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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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There's not much of a follow-your-dreams kind of vibe in New Zealand or my family.
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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 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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