Parker Posey Quotes
It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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Drugs scared me.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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I'm always looking for ways to connect myself with American people and that American feeling. I'm trying to pick up on the feeling of places, like the Los Angeles feeling or the New York feeling... Los Angeles is much better for me that way.
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Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
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My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.
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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
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It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.
