Top 94 Arquette Quotes
#1. During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I can't live like this. I can't take another second of this living hell.'
Conan O'Brien
#2. I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.
Kirsten Dunst
#3. When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.
Courteney Cox
#4. In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.
Rosanna Arquette
#5. I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
Patricia Arquette
#8. Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.
Rosanna Arquette
#9. I enjoy being a character actor; I enjoy being different in everything. I want a private life; I want to be able to go to 7-11 and not get into a fight with a guy because he saw me in a movie, or not have people hitting on me simply because they saw me in a movie.
Alexis Arquette
#10. I think God is a giant vibrator in the sky ... a pulsating force of incredible energy.
David Arquette
#11. I'm not a technical person. It's not something I personally do love. I'm actually terrified of it, and that is what's interesting to me about it.
Patricia Arquette
#12. There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.
Patricia Arquette
#13. The interesting thing about cybercrime and the whole cyber world is that many of the people that are most proficient in it are young people, really young people.
Patricia Arquette
#14. Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.
Rosanna Arquette
#15. I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.
Rosanna Arquette
#16. Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.
Patricia Arquette
#17. A six year old can probably do more on their iPad than you can do and access more. My daughter's swiping away windows and doing all these things that I don't know how to do.
Patricia Arquette
#18. You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.
Patricia Arquette
#19. The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.
Patricia Arquette
#20. I was raised by somebody with the perception of trying to allow me the space and show me the importance of knowing who I was and figuring out who I was and appreciating who I was.
Patricia Arquette
#21. I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.
David Arquette
#22. Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.
Rosanna Arquette
#23. Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.
Patricia Arquette
#24. I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.
Patricia Arquette
#26. Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
Patricia Arquette
#27. The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
David Arquette
#28. Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
Patricia Arquette
#29. Of course, a lot of courtship and dating is about sexual attraction. If you're an attractive person, you have that sort of interest from people, whether you cater to it or not, but when you get older, that's not really the leading thing anymore.
Patricia Arquette
#30. People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.
David Arquette
#32. Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.
Rosanna Arquette
#33. I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.
Patricia Arquette
#34. What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.
Patricia Arquette
#35. To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!
Patricia Arquette
#36. I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.
David Arquette
#38. It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.
Rosanna Arquette
#39. I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.
David Arquette
#40. Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's working, and yes, she's taking care of her kids full time, and yes, she's a mom, but she's also in a great mood all
the time."
Patricia Arquette
#41. The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devices.
Patricia Arquette
#42. Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.
David Arquette
#44. I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.
Patricia Arquette
#47. There's no way I'm going to put this kid in the movies, because of the rejection. It's so hard as an adult, so why set her up to feel that bad as a child?
Rosanna Arquette
#48. I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.
David Arquette
#49. It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.
Rosanna Arquette
#50. I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me.
David Arquette
#52. It's easy for people to come in when they think you're in a hot moment of your life, but it's really nice also for people who believe in your work for the long term and are there not when something hip's happening at that moment.
Patricia Arquette
#53. It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.
Patricia Arquette
#54. I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
David Arquette
#55. Men want girls. Most men want little girls. They want them in film. They want to look at them. That's all they want. An evolved man is not going to look that way.
Rosanna Arquette
#56. To be a woman in law enforcement on television, I think, is sort of important. It's a powerful position for a woman to be in, but also to be looking at these new technologies, exploring these new technologies.
Patricia Arquette
#57. I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not mean your child is going to be transgendered. And even if it were true, why is it such a horrible thing?
Alexis Arquette
#58. I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
Rosanna Arquette
#59. To get involved with a cause, you really have to become aware of it. You have to go on the ground and see with your own eyes, the people who have been affected by it, their process in how they're combating it, and what the organization represents.
David Arquette
#61. I know when we were really little, my mom would say to me, "If you can, the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, just get quiet and ask God, 'Who is Patricia?' You can feel your own nature and know who you are."
Patricia Arquette
#62. Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.
Patricia Arquette
#63. I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.
David Arquette
#64. Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.
Patricia Arquette
#65. I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.
Patricia Arquette
#66. Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.
Rosanna Arquette
#67. Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.
Alexis Arquette
#68. Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.
David Arquette
#69. I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
Patricia Arquette
#70. As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.
Patricia Arquette
#71. Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug.
Patricia Arquette
#72. I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age.
Rosanna Arquette
#73. There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.
Patricia Arquette
#74. I don't know why I always end up talking about my relationships. I try not to.
David Arquette
#76. I seriously started drinking probably when I was about twelve. Kids are doing a lot of stuff very early.
David Arquette
#77. I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
Patricia Arquette
#78. It's incredible. Everything you ever thought about love just becomes night and day. I mean, you never thought you could love that much. You rediscover the world, and it's just a beautiful thing.
David Arquette
#79. I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette
#80. It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.
Alexis Arquette
#81. I'm not one to run around with different girls. I like someone that makes me feel good and that I can make feel good.
David Arquette
#82. I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agitator, I'm opinionated, I'm a libertine and leader.
Alexis Arquette
#83. Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.
Patricia Arquette
#84. I know I love my kids and I know they love me. I know I have beautiful friends and a great family, and I know I've been really blessed in this life.
Patricia Arquette
#85. I grew up at a time with androgyny in the 1980s; it was easy to pass under the radar as a gay may.
Alexis Arquette
#87. When you're just an actor, maybe not the top of the list guys, you get constant rejection and it's fun.
David Arquette
#88. Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.
Patricia Arquette
#90. If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.
Patricia Arquette
#91. There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.
Rosanna Arquette
#92. There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's a price to be paid for that when you're expected to be the full-time caretaker and you're expected to be the full-time breadwinner.
Patricia Arquette
#93. It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
Rosanna Arquette
#94. It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.
Rosanna Arquette
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