Patricia Clarkson Quotes
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've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
