Parker Posey Quotes
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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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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Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
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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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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 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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I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.
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I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
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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'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 like to support local record stores.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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People see images now more than they see movies.
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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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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.