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Melanie Lynskey

24 quotes

“I want to be like Julianne Moore and get to do things that scare me — and keep on doing them until I'm very old.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Movieline, Stephen Rebello (May 1999, p. 12)
“I was picking my luggage up, and I turned around and there she was. She looked like this vision. I said, 'Oh my God, you look like a movie star!' I was so in awe of her. And she had head shots! I'd never seen such a thing. She had these black-and-white photos with her hair blown back. And I said, 'What do you do with them?' And she said, 'Send them to fans.'”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On meeting Kate Winslet, Premiere, Holly Millea (November 1999, p. 110)
“The first audition I ever did [in America], the casting director said, "I don't know why you're here. You're never going to work [here]. You don't look right. You don't have the right kind of personality. I don't even know if you can do an American accent. Maybe you can try England." [...] It made me more determined.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chicago Tribune (19 April 2006)
“Every time someone comes with the Kate Winslet question I think it's lazy journalism.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being compared to her Heavenly Creatures co-star, Otago Daily Times, Mark Orton (8 November 2008)
“I always wanted to be an actor, but I had this whole plan to go to a good drama school and do it that way. I wasn't trying to get into movies; someone came to my high school and auditioned some girls, so it was a complete accident.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being cast in Heavenly Creatures, Interview, Emma Brown (23 January 2012)
“Matt Damon said something to me that I really have lived by ever since [...] "At the end of your career, when someone looks over your filmography, all they remember is if the movie was good or not. They're not saying, "Oh, he got [to] play that crazy character!" Or, "Oh, all those people were in that movie." He says "all people know is if the movie was good or not," and all that has to do with whether the script is any good; so, if you consistently choose good scripts — whether you're in three scenes or every scene — you're going to build a very strong résumé.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Film Stage, Nick Newman (6 September 2012)
“I knew I had to get out and start building up something else.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On stepping away from her regular role on Two and a Half Men, BuzzFeed, Kate Aurthur (24 July 2014)
“It's very challenging to put yourself out there and be like, 'You know what, this is what I look like. I am having thyroid issues and I gained 20 lbs. and I still have to be naked on television.'”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On nude scenes, People, Kara Warner (13 March 2016)
“Honestly, doing three or four episodes a year [of Two and a Half Men] enabled me to pay my mortgage and do independent films.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the benefits of being a sitcom guest star, IndieWire, Jude Dry (4 November 2016)
“I made a movie last year [which] cost $50,000. I'm willing to do stuff like that. I basically worked for free. Whereas other people have requirements.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On pursuing creativity, The Playlist, Jordan Ruimy (24 February 2017)
“I have this sort of weird thing where people know me from one [project] and then think I've never worked again. And they'll say, "Do you ever think about acting? Do you think about acting again?”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being approached in public, The A.V. Club, Cameron Scheetz (20 May 2020)
“It's a lot easier to stay under the radar, have people be like, 'You should get more attention, you should have more roles' or whatever. It's weird to have been doing this for 30 years and then all of a sudden [find fame]. I didn't think this would happen. I thought if it was going to happen, it would happen in my 20s. So I'm grateful, and it's really nice to have choices. But it feels vulnerable.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On becoming famous later in life, The Guardian, Emine Saner (24 February 2022)
“I once auditioned to play Janis Joplin and I still sometimes wake up in a cold sweat thinking that there's a tape of me auditioning to play Janis Joplin out there somewhere... so mortifying. It was when I was younger, and was auditioning for everything, so there were roles that I would go for that didn't resonate with me, in my soul, and that was torturous. I mean I wish Janis Joplin was in me, but she really isn't.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Denizen, Margie Riddiford (16 March 2022)
“People I hadn't heard from in years were getting in touch with me. I started to do some interviews, and then what I was saying in the interviews, people were paying attention to. It was a really hard, odd place to be for me. I was like, 'Oh, gosh, I've got to start watching myself, because I have no filter.'”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On exposure since the debut of Yellowjackets, Vanity Fair, David Canfield (26 April 2022)
“I said to [my] agency, I have a real problem being a size six — which is what I was at the time — and playing a chubby friend. I hate that these roles exist. I think it's damaging. It's weird for little girls to watch this movie and be like, 'Oh, she's supposed to be the fat one.'”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being typecast early in her career, Vulture, E. Alex Jung (23 May 2022)
“It's good in New Zealand to be humble; it's good to be a quieter person. And then you get to this place where everyone wants you to be brash and confident, and I just was like, 'I don't know how to do that!'”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On moving to Los Angeles in her 20s, Backstage, Cameron Scheetz (8 June 2022)
“I'm someone who cares very deeply about critics and what critics think. So I'm on Rotten Tomatoes, reading every single review. Like, I care, you know, I respect these people.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Envelope, Yvonne Villarreal and Navani Otero (2 August 2022)
“I started calling myself a character actor in interviews when I was really young because I think it was reclaiming the term or something. I think I just was like, "That's what I am.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Hollywood Reporter, Rebecca Keegan (3 August 2022)
“I was friends with Brittany Murphy, and the way she viewed herself was always really heartbreaking to me — the things she felt she had to change to be a successful actor. She was perfect just as she was, but people were trying to cast her as, like, 'the fat one,' because when she was a very young teenager, her cheeks were a little bit round. People tell you that you're a particular thing, and it's very hard to fight back against.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: InStyle, Laura Norkin (9 August 2022)
“When I first came [to America], I watched a lot of movies. I couldn't afford a dialect coach. And so I just watched everything I could. I tried to learn a lot of different accents. And I'm an introvert, I'm an observer.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On perfecting accents, AwardsWatch, Erik Anderson (11 August 2022)
“I very much want to be onscreen representing an interesting person who's not paying attention to what her tummy looks like [...] If there were more people [onscreen] who look like me, then I wouldn't have to talk about it as much.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On beauty standards in Hollywood, The New York Times, Alexis Soloski (14 March 2023)
“When I read a script for the first time, I have to have something instinctive happen where I feel like that character is there somewhere. I have to hear a person, I have to feel them inside me in a way.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Today.com, Sarah Lemire (16 March 2023)
“I am quite shy sometimes. I do have some social anxiety. I am soft-spoken. But I'm quite ferocious. I think to be labeled as someone who is a pushover has been the hardest thing to get out of in terms of my personal and professional life.”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Glamour, Anna Moeslein (23 March 2023)
“I had a very old-school agent who was like, 'TV? That's for has-beens!'”
Melanie Lynskey (born 1977) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On almost playing Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Shut Up Evan, Evan Ross Katz (18 July 2023)