Patricia Clarkson Quotes

• "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."
• "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."
• "And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten."
• "And there were many parts I didn't get. I was always kind of grasping at things."
• "Any further recognition is great because it always brings attention to the films and I just want people to see the movies."
• "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."
• "But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people."
• "But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."
• "Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever."
• "I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."
• "I don't like a lot of rehearsing."
• "I have to watch the news or my day is not complete."
• "I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."
• "I love writers. All of my best friends are writers."
• "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."
• "I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies."
• "I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor."
• "I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy."
• "I was never girlish. My sense of humor was never quite the fit. My voice was never high enough. I was never sexy in that way."
• "I'd say the majority of the films I go see are art films, but I sometimes like to see big-budget pictures."
• "I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines."
• "I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must."
• "I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director."
• "I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!"
• "If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride."
• "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."
• "It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job."
• "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."
• "My major was liberal arts, but I studied a lot of theater, Fordham had an amazing theater program - really comprehensive."
• "New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19."
• "No, in high school I was kind of like a cheerleader. I was a Chargerette."
• "See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise."
• "The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes."
• "The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business."
• "Two movies with a combined budget of under a million bucks is like yahoo!"
• "Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University."
• "Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"
• "You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead."