S. N. Parker Quotes

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I still don't look like what I think I look like.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

I think there's something that's fascist [in Donald Trump's election], and something that I think we could probably learn from, in terms of the energy in the world right now.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.