"She who saves a single soul, saves the universe."

“Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer and, second, in the mind of the reader.”

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

“And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.”

Source : Song: The Fear, Album: It's Not Me, It's You, 2009

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

Source : "The Playlist Profile: Melanie Lynskey Talks Hollywood, ‘Hello I Must Be Going,’ ‘Heavenly Creatures’ & More" by Maris James, www.indiewire.com. September 04, 2012.

“Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.”

“Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.”

“Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.”