Patricia Clarkson Quotes
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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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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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
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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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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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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 think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
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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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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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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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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'
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Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.
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I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
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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.