Words matter. These are the best Mary-Louise Parker Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The theater is who I am – it’s where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
I never feel more useful than when I’m making my kids a bowl of soup.
People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.
I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
I don’t live in Los Angeles and I don’t do a lot of superfluous press.
Mediocrity is underrated.
I don’t get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
I just want to make lunches and organize my kids’ playroom.
Words are really powerful. I don’t believe that axiom at all – words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I’ll take sticks and stones.
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.
My sister’s fish tacos are out of control. I’d give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.
My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They’re so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
It’s good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
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 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.
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.
