Top 31 Patricia Clarkson Quotes
#1. That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.
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#4. It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
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#5. I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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#7. I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family.
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#9. I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
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#10. I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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#11. 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.
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#14. The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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#15. But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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#17. But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
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#19. Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.
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#20. I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
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#22. The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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#23. I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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#24. Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked.
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#27. I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I've been fortunate enough that I've had great love, and I've dated remarkable men in my life. I'm very thankful for all of that.
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#28. I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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#31. I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
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