Parker Posey Quotes

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

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• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  

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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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• I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

  

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• Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

  

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• Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

  

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• I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.

  

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• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  

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• Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

  

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• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

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• Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.

  

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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  

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• All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

  

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• When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

  

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• Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

  

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• People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.

  

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• If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

  

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• If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is different. If you read Dogen, a lot of his stuff is very strange and is coming from a different place than what we're used to, but at the same time, it's not senseless ramblings and that's part of what attracted me to Dogen. I didn't get it, but it was sane. It's not some guy raving about UFO's or Moses living in his bathtub, it's was actually something sane that I just didn't get, if that makes sense?

  

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• Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Acting
  • Strange
  • Very