Parker Posey Quotes

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

I don't know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.

Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

People are like, 'Was it fun? Did you eat lots of cake?'

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

I'm having too good of a time.

My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.

As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you're like a horse running onto the racetrack.

Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.

I've done a lot of crafts in my day. I learned how to do pottery, yoga... and I just wanted to share and talk and write.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

I've gotten to portray things in [Christopher Guest's] movies that I wouldn't have in others.

I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

It's not really cool to be singled out.

I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.