Patricia Clarkson Quotes
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
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When I'm on subzero energy, I have to remember that a lot of little films just go away. I mean, you shoot these small films, and you never know what the hell is going to happen-- and suddenly, they go to Sundance, they get great distributors, and two are coming out within two weeks of each other. How amazing is that?
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Two movies with a combined budget of under a million bucks is like yahoo!
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They think the worst is over, but we have plenty to go. We have disease and the inability to get sustenance to them — food and water — and they have no sanitary facilities. They have to get out.
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There were some movies I passed on early on, and some movies I didn't get, some big studio films. But now I look back and I realize that I really came later in life to a kind of career. I was somewhat typecast as suburban "mom" type roles early on. But I've always had this deep voice, so I think it was tough sometimes for directors to cast me as the ingenue. Because I'd walk in and look a certain way, then open my mouth and have this...voice! So I think I sort of grew into my voice, my face, my body as I got older.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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She's all right, otherwise I wouldn't be here,
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Of course the city will be rebuilt. It’s a great place to visit and an even better place to grow up. Its diversity and culture are with you forever.
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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My major was liberal arts, but I studied a lot of theater, Fordham had an amazing theater program - really comprehensive.
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Maybe I have a certain amount of smarts to say yes because I don't care if I'm not going to make any money because I love the part.
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I think most people see me as much darker, more serious and possessing a certain gravitas, when I'm really quite insane. I guess I want everyone to see my insanity. I have a far more nutty and unpredictable side.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
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I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.
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It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
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It's maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe it's a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefully am more secure in mind and body and spirit.
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It's like going to someone's country home in the middle of the city.
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I saw the Hyatt for the first time yesterday and I can't believe anyone who was in that building is alive. But I must say, I am glad to be home with my family and I am fortunate that they are all fine and well.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I love Brian DePalma and I do to this day. I adore him. You never forget your first. He gave me my first movie job in my whole life. He was amazing to me.
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I just think he’s truly one of the best people in the business. You look up ‘exemplary’ in the dictionary and there’s George. That’s exactly what he’s done – he’s put his money, and his fame, where his mouth is. After a while, what are you going to do with it? But you can actually affect change. You can actually make a difference.
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I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
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I go where I need to go. If I need to look glamorous or spiffy or young, or battling cancer, or a drugged-out and hippie type, it hopefully will be projected in my face. That's the beauty of acting: hopefully it comes through. It's not about hair and makeup, a different color of hair. It's about being malleable. I just always hope it's going to work because you never know.
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If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
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I don’t have a computer.I’m just technologically challenged. It’s enough already with the phone, the voicemail, the fax machine. If I had to answer email I’d go insane.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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I don't consider the fact that I've dated several men in my life and not married one a failure. I consider that a good time.
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I am going out with some of those search-and-rescues today.
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I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
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I've never done TV day in day out for years and I don't think I could. I'm very claustrophobic. It is why I've shied away from a TV series and I've been offered many. There is such extraordinary TV, but it's too hard for me. I kind of like never knowing what I'm doing.
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I've always wanted to be leading lady/character actress.
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I'm thrilled if it means that maybe my name can help get an independent film made, honey. I'm all for that. I'm proud of the fact that my name is known because I've been in all these great films.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
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I'd say the majority of the films I go see are art films, but I sometimes like to see big-budget pictures.
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Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
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He's a great mixture of strength and vulnerability,
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Come for the people. Come for beignets.
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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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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. That's really just kind of the highlight of my day.
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And there were many parts I didn't get. I was always kind of grasping at things.
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And it's not that I haven't taken a money job here and there but for the most part I have been driven by the need to work on a great script.
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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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