Parker Posey Quotes
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.
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Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
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People see images now more than they see movies.
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Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
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I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.
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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
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I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.
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I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.
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I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.
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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
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I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
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What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!
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I like to support local record stores.
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I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.
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I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.
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You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.