Mary-Louise Parker Quotes
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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise talent. If youre good at something, then people have no choice but to accept it.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.
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Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.
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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.
