Words matter. These are the best Patricia Arquette Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.
I didn’t want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, ‘They’re looking at you because you’re a beautiful little girl.’ But I didn’t believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.
Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.
I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don’t want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don’t agree with it either, by the way.
Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they’re being photographed from. I don’t do that.
Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.
I don’t have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
Financiers don’t support their directors to cast properly. They don’t have the vision of an artist. They’re casting to spreadsheets, and it’s making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.
We all go through life living in little bubbles, which we share with people who think pretty much the same as us.
Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.
In Hollywood, nobody knows how much everyone is making. It’s all very hidden, and it’s hard to change those things.
Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever – it’s a very short shelf life if you’re going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.
I don’t think I would have had much of a career if I didn’t have my son.
I find that men are far more vain than women.
I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
I didn’t think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.
I think we’ve told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.
I feel like I’m getting the best parts of my career in my 50s.
If we don’t allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It’s a sham.
We never thought ‘Boyhood’ was ever gonna become Oscar-considered. Our shooting budget was $2.8m for 12 years. Altogether. I didn’t know if anyone would see it or appreciate it.
I’ve crafted a really weird career for myself.
For some people, when you walk into a room, what your fame means to them can be like pointing a weird gun at them. It triggers something. They might get really giggly or flirty or cold or confrontational.
You want your partner to objectify you.
