Mary-Louise Parker Quotes

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

Mediocrity is underrated.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

My mother is a beauty.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

Don’t have a fall back, because if you do, you’ll fall back.

The first thing I ever bought for myself was a green Lacoste shirt.

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.

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 don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

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.

I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

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 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'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.

My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

Space is entirely poetic.