Latest Patricia Arquette Quotes from Interviews

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• If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that's how we communicate. That doesn't mean people know you. At a certain point, I think you have to just be your own self.

  Patricia Arquette

  Mean, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be.

  Patricia Arquette

  People, Actors, Imagine

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they couldn't leave.

  Patricia Arquette

  Mom, Choices, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.

  Patricia Arquette

  Jobs, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

  Patricia Arquette

  Violent Acts, Dna, Intimate

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.

  Patricia Arquette

  Thinking, Equal Pay, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• We have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making 78 cents on the dollar. It doesn't change very much year by year, it might go up or down a penny, but oftentimes, the years that it goes up are the same years that men are making a little bit more. It's pretty much always in proportion.

  Patricia Arquette

  Men, Years, California

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.

  Patricia Arquette

  Average, Degrees, Dollars

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

  Patricia Arquette

  United States, Poverty, Nations

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Every day that a woman is making less money, that's less money she has in retirement.

  Patricia Arquette

  Retirement

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I'm supporting anyone except Donald Trump.

  Patricia Arquette

  Trump

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I worry about women globally. When we talk about having a presidential candidate who would tear up the Paris accords, who doesn't believe in global warming, we know that poor women and children are going to be the most vulnerable when we start seeing rapid effects of global warming.

  Patricia Arquette

  Children, Believe, Paris

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The good news is that we have a very active part of America that wants some radical progress.

  Patricia Arquette

  America, Progress, News

• One of the most disturbing things I heard was that women's issues weren't "hot." Which is so ironic, because women are constantly being judged on some "hot" level. The conversation is not hot enough for them to do anything about. We have to make it hot, make them feel the fire. Until then, a lot of them aren't going to do anything.

  Patricia Arquette

  Fire, Issues, Ironic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• When I talk to different lawmakers, I'm trying to get them to reach across the aisle. There's legislation out there that would be helpful for women and families, but like with the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation has been on the floor many times, and voted down many times. It's something we need to get passed already.

  Patricia Arquette

  Trying, Different, Would Be

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.

  Patricia Arquette

  Males, Whole Family, Whole

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The number-one reason women say they returned to their abuser is financial insecurity. Often they have kids with them. They say half of the 66 million women and kids living in poverty in the US wouldn't be if women were just paid their full dollar. That's an enormous impact we could make on child hunger.

  Patricia Arquette

  Children, Kids, Impact

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

  Patricia Arquette

  Girl, United States, Earth

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part of domestic abuse is often economic suppression; the male might take your paycheck every week and never give you money or allow you to work because he's too jealous.

  Patricia Arquette

  Jealous, Giving, Abuse

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

  Patricia Arquette

  Years, Pay Gap, Needs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.

  Patricia Arquette

  Impact, California, America

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.

  Patricia Arquette

  Mother, Rights, Parent

• Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.

  Patricia Arquette

  Husband, People, Nightmare

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.

  Patricia Arquette

  Rights, World

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

  Patricia Arquette

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Drug

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.