Parker Posey Quotes
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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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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 wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
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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 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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Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
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We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.
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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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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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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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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 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 got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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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 like to support local record stores.
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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 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.
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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 like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.