Parker Posey Quotes
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We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.
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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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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
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It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.
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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 the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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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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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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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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I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
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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 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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Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
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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.
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I like to support local record stores.
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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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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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People see images now more than they see movies.
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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 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 can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.