Mary-Louise Parker quotes
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“People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.”
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“Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.”
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“I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.”
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“I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.”
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“I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.”
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“I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.”
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“I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.”
-- Mary-Louise ParkerSource : "Face Time | Mary Louise Parker and Charlie Mars". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 11, 2011.
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“I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.”
-- Mary-Louise ParkerSource : "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.
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“One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.”
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“I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now.”
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“I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact,”
-- Mary-Louise ParkerSource : "Mary-Louise Parker loves being naked" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. June 3, 2009.
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“I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.”
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“I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.”
-- Mary-Louise ParkerSource : "Face Time | Mary Louise Parker and Charlie Mars". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 11, 2011.
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“I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.”
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“I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.”
-- Mary-Louise ParkerSource : "Face Time | Mary Louise Parker and Charlie Mars". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 11, 2011.
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“I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.”
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“I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.”
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“In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.”
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“I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.”
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“I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.”
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“It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.”
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“I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.”
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“I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.”
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“Don’t have a fall back, because if you do, you’ll fall back.”
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“The first thing I ever bought for myself was a green Lacoste shirt.”
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“Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.”
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“My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.”
-- Mary-Louise ParkerSource : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2009.
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“I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.”
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“I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.”
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“I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.”
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“The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.”
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“My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.”
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“My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.”
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“Mediocrity is underrated.”
-- Mary-Louise ParkerSource : "Mary-Louise Parker: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.
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“Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.”
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“My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.”
-- Mary-Louise Parker
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