Mary-Louise Parker
People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
Mediocrity is underrated.
I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.
My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.
Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.
I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.
My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.
It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.
I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.
My mother is a beauty.
I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.
I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.
I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.
Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.Collection: Women
One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.Collection: Crazy
I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.Collection: Hurt
I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact.Collection: August
There's a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people's trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it's hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun.Collection: Fun
My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.Collection: Want
Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time.Collection: School
I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the other finale so I thought it was going to be really stupid but some people really liked it.Collection: Stupid
I haven't read the comic book. I didn't even know there was one until about halfway though. Helen Mirren and I were talking about that actually, who also felt kind of silly. When we had to run she was like, 'Oh God, we're both going to get fired.' The running sequences, it's a particular kind of humiliation because it's fun.Collection: Running
We're dodging bullets and this is right after we've just seen [inaudible] shot and we're running and the woman who John accused of being out to kill us and everyone thought he was kidding. When we see her she appears and she's after us.Collection: Running
I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you.Collection: Sexy
I really like the director [for Weeds]. I don't know if you've spoken to him yet but he's really, really intelligent. He was just really kind when I met him and nice and really told me why I should play the part...and kind of really didn't argue with him. He's just really, really smart and assembled these really great people. I felt like he really knows how to enlist his intelligence to get you - I don't know - he's really hard to argue with I find.Collection: Weed
Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly vague but I never set out to be likeable or funny or anything like that. I'm just trying to tell the story in the best way that I can and serve the writer because it's really about the writer.Collection: Trying
I don't think anyone honestly would hire me, so I don't think I have to worry but, if it was well written I would do it. I would do anything.Collection: Thinking
It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.Collection: Pigs
Yeah, when you work with somebody that famous everybody wants to know what are they like or - but I know some of the movies that I know because they're more like NOBODY'S FOOL or like that, because I don't really watch the big R movies, I haven't really seen them so much. I loved him [Bruce Willis] from his TV show and some of the smaller movies he's done. The bigger movies I start to space out in, like, there just so, I don't really watch those kind of movies so much.Collection: Tv Shows
I thought the other ones were so obviously - what are we going to do if she burns down the house? The DEA, which I think was maybe the best one because she's wearing the jacket when she goes through the mirror and I think that was kind of amazing because you really weren't expecting that. There's something almost slapstick about this in a way that worried me. It was a little pratfalley with the golf club and the - but I think it probably cut together okay.Collection: Golf
You can tell actually when he starts to talk about his family, or his Daughters, or his Wife, and his whole face - really he's so really kind of a dear.Collection: Daughter
Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.Collection: New York
I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.Collection: Gun