Patricia Clarkson famous quotes

04-27-2025

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
-- Patricia Clarkson
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#New Orleans #Born #Raised
The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Independent #Majority #Lucky
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Comedic #Exception
See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Awards #Surprise #Caught
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Odds #Favors
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Directors #Actors #Rely
I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Thinking #Film #Intimacy
If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Honey #Gravy #Train
But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Nice #Successful #Odds
But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Luxury #People #Film
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Character #Trying #Firsts
I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Watches #News
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#My Best Friend
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Beautiful #Smart #Agents
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Distance #Thinking #Would Be
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Thinking #Roles #Lines
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Character #Thinking #Actors
I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Obsession #Obsessed #Needed
Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.
-- Patricia Clarkson

#Sexy #Aphrodisiac #Talent

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