Patricia Clarkson Quotes

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• Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Sexy, Aphrodisiac, Talent

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• In 8th grade I started doing theatre and I remember it was as though I had taken a trip to a foreign land that I had never seen before yet felt completely at home. I remember feeling a genuine wave of happiness and of feeling complete.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Taken, Home, Feelings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I think, empathetic and sympathetic to the film. I would never pretend to have the discerning and acute critical eye that a lot of the great critics in our business do have. I don't look at it as being a critic or placing a judgment on a film, and I do think, how do you decide which film is best anyway? It's always a little bit of a mixed bag. But, I think it is just a collective group of people coming together to honor the work of an artist - that's how I think of it.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Eye, Thinking, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I will say from the outset, I think if you're great, you're great from the very beginning. And because I do think it is innate and I do think it is a gift you just have, and I don't think you can - you can hone the skills of a director, but sadly, I do think that you are born a great director. I think it's just in you and it's something that is deep in you. But, I find it can be difficult working with first-time directors, but it's also moving.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Moving, Thinking, Difficult

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Mother, Lying, Fake

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• I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Character, Trying, Firsts

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• If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Honey, Gravy, Train

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• I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Someday, 21st Century

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have walked away from enormous amounts of money and I have made that life I have wanted somewhat in this business. I love doing independent film, I love doing theater, I love doing studio films, and I do all three now.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Independent, Film

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I try to take off the rose-colored glasses and view it in all facets, but I probably would be lying if I didn't say that probably the way in for a film with me is the performance. But I have been on juries where you have to give Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography. So you do have to put on several different hats and I try to broaden my scope. And what's great is, when you're in a room full of people who are not your milieu, so to speak, you find yourself speaking in a way that you do discover a slightly discerning eye.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Lying, Eye, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I've been fortunate enough that I've had great love, and I've dated remarkable men in my life. I'm very thankful for all of that.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Men, Thinking, Great Love

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• I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family.

  Patricia Clarkson

  My Family, Stunning, My Friendship

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• I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Rehearsing

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• New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

  Patricia Clarkson

  New Orleans, Born, Raised

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• I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Obsession, Obsessed, Needed

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• Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Free Spirit, Naked, Want

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• But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Nice, Successful, Odds

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• The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Odds, Favors, Ifs

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• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Awards, Surprise, Caught

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• I think every metropolitan city has its pockets of - that's what makes them great.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Distance, Thinking, Would Be

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• I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Thinking, Roles, Lines

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• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Character, Thinking, Actors

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• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Independent, Majority, Lucky

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• I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Thinking, Film, Intimacy

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