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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
-
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.
-
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.
-
For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
-
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
-
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.
-
Drugs scared me.
-
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.
-
It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
-
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
-
A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
-
I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.
-
It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.
-
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
-
It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
-
A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.
-
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.
