Latest Mary-Louise Parker Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  School, People, Remember

  Source: tv.avclub.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Hurt, Powerful, Reading

  Source: www.avclub.com

• People ask me, 'Why are you doing a show on Showtime?' Because I'll do anything really, I don't really care, I'll do a show on Nickelodeon if I thought it was well written. Actually Nickelodeon's kind of awesome.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  People, Care, Kind

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Thinking, Worry, Honestly

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Daughter, Wife, Faces

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Golf, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Tv Shows, Space, Done

  Source: collider.com

• You can never really tell, it's kind of a red herring until you see the project I think. You just know if you like working with someone or not, and he does have a real sweetness about him, I think.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Real, Thinking, Red

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Stupid, People, Pages

  Source: collider.com

• I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Gun, Very Good

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  New York, Children, Home

  Source: collider.com

• There's something really sweet about the way he's playing the part and he's kind of irresistible in a way. They're both really lonely. That's kind of established from the very beginning in the movie. The way they meet is just classic, lonely losers.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Sweet, Lonely, Way

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Pigs, Get Better, Add

  Source: collider.com

• Well, it's kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there's conflict and they're estranged and they kind of grow to love each other but they don't show it. Then at the end - it's kind of like that. But I think the characters are more interesting than that.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Running, Fun, Book

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Weed, Nice, Smart

  Source: collider.com

• I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a regularity to the schedule. You have to finish an episode by a certain day. Movies can just go on interminably.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Acting, Schedules, Goes On

  Source: collider.com

• With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Community, Way, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Fun, Moving, People

• 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.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Trying, Sound, Stories