I Am A Smoker, I'm Ashamed To Say. I Had Given It Up For Many Years, Then Picked It Up Again. It's A Horrible Habit. I Struggle With Myself All The Time. And I Love To Smoke. An Actor Has To Be Very, Very Careful, As One Of The Most Wonderful Props - And Actors Love Props - Is A Cigarette. There's So Much To Do With It: You Can Bring It Up To Your Face, Play With The Smoke. It's Just The Greatest - Ever Since I Was 16 And In Acting School In England, I've Been Playing Around With Cigarettes.

-Melissa Leo

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I Am A Smoker, I'm Ashamed To

Melissa Leo

I Am A Smoker, I'm Ashamed To Say. I Had Given It Up For Many Years, Then Picked It Up Again. It's A Horrible Habit. I Struggle With Myself All The Time. And I Love To Smoke. An Actor Has To Be Very, Very Careful, As One Of The Most Wonderful Props - And Actors Love Props - Is A Cigarette. There's So Much To Do With It: You Can Bring It Up To Your Face, Play With The Smoke. It's Just The Greatest - Ever Since I Was 16 And In Acting School In England, I've Been Playing Around With Cigarettes.

Topic

Struggle

School

Acting

It Becomes More And More Popular To Call Actors Who Play Characters "character Actors." But I've Always Been Somebody Who Is Much More Invested In Who I Am Playing Than How They Look.

Character