Top 69 Mary Louise Parker Quotes
#2. 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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#3. Everyone is a mass of contradictions. There are no "types" of people,
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#5. It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
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#6. You can tell actually when he starts to talk about his family, or his Daughters, or his Wife, and his whole face - really he's so really kind of a dear.
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#7. We're dodging bullets and this is right after we've just seen [inaudible] shot and we're running and the woman who John accused of being out to kill us and everyone thought he was kidding. When we see her she appears and she's after us.
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#8. I love that sensation, when you think, this is too good, I'll catch up with everyone else later. You just have to take in the truth of that expanse a few more seconds before it changes and becomes something else entirely, or before you do.
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#9. I don't think anyone honestly would hire me, so I don't think I have to worry but, if it was well written I would do it. I would do anything
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#10. I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
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#11. Well, it's kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there's conflict and they're estranged and they kind of grow to love each other but they don't show it. Then at the end - it's kind of like that. But I think the characters are more interesting than that.
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#12. I hear people say, "It happened for a reason," or "It's part of God's plan," and I wish that made sense to me but it doesn't.
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#13. 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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#14. To convey in any existing language how I miss you isn't possible. It would be like blue trying to describe the ocean.
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#15. 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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#17. 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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#18. There's something really sweet about the way he's playing the part and he's kind of irresistible in a way. They're both really lonely. That's kind of established from the very beginning in the movie. The way they meet is just classic, lonely losers.
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#19. I go far out, maybe in a field somewhere quiet. I think of things I have done in my life that people tell me are good. I remember that I have done good
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#20. I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the other finale so I thought it was going to be really stupid but some people really liked it.
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#24. Thank you for giving me your arm and those four hours that I now understand you did not have an endless supply of. It was short but I loved our little trip. We fell in love, but the way you love a view that comes along once or twice in life.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a regularity to the schedule. You have to finish an episode by a certain day. Movies can just go on interminably.
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#30. Thanks to you I don't have to watch either of those scenarios play out while perched on a cloud fighting with God to let me intercede,or spend eternity aching to at least become the quivering sunbeam that lands on them one morning when they rol out of bed at age twenty-five.
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#31. My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
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#33. 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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#34. You can never really tell, it's kind of a red herring until you see the project I think. You just know if you like working with someone or not, and he does have a real sweetness about him, I think.
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#36. My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
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#37. It's transparent, how willing we are to dismiss the intelligence of someone who rejects us, as though that renders them incapable of sound judgement.
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#38. With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater.
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#41. 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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#42. It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.
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#43. I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.
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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. It's because of you that I can go to any church and take whatever the service has to offer, all of it up for interpretation except kindness.
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#47. Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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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#50. Thank you for being open to another more workable draft of me. It affected me profoundly.
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#51. 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,
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#52. I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.
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#54. 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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#56. People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
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#57. I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
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#58. People ask me, 'Why are you doing a show on Showtime?' Because I'll do anything really, I don't really care, I'll do a show on Nickelodeon if I thought it was well written. Actually Nickelodeon's kind of awesome.
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#59. I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you.
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#60. You were a living reminder of what I always professed to believe, that you never know what happened to someone that day, so try to cut some slack, but being bound by my own ropes I was unable to give you that.
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#61. I have to hold that up as a metaphor for everything, being prepared and then being brave enough to just be there. Just listen and follow, maybe jump. Everyone leans in, it brings them into your emotional vicinity because, you said "Risk creates intimacy
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#63. In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
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#64. this right now, this is the only time I am all here and no part of me needs time travel Right
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#65. I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
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#66. I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.
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#67. The first thing I ever bought for myself was a green Lacoste shirt.
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#68. 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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#69. My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.
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