S. N. Parker Quotes

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

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 know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.

In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture

What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

It's very tricky to know when to stop. I think there are definitely moments where you feel that is the heart of a scene. When you're working on the script, you're looking for a handle on it.

I'm just the average guy, I fooled around a little on the side.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

After 20 years of painting wildlife subjects in acrylic, I felt the need for a change and began to explore portraiture and landscape in oils.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.

We're all separate and individual people.

I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.

I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

I feel conflicted about my relationship with social media.