Parker Posey Quotes

#1. I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

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#2. Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

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#3. But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

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#4. I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

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#5. I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

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#6. I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

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#7. I love bayou life.

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#8. Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

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#9. My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

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#10. My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

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#11. I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

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#12. My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

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#13. I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

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#14. I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

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#15. I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

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#16. I'm having too good of a time.

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#17. I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

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#18. There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

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#19. Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

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