Top 70 Parker Posey Quotes

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What’s going on in their heart? There’s that that I think about with every role.

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

What’s the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That’s what I wanna know!

I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn’t take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we’d still go and find the ones with personality.

There have been periods of my career that I haven’t worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

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

We shot ‘Party Girl’ on film, and I remember being told, ‘We need to get this in two takes because we don’t have a lot of film in the mag right now!’

There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I’ve continued to work.

It’s really fun to see a movie that you’ve heard about that’s really good.

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

My first lead role was probably ‘Party Girl’ in 1994.

I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs… It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it’s like notes you pass in class. If someone’s passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you’re like, oh, ‘What are you doing?’

Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, ‘I want to live in there someday.’

I wonder if people who see ‘Blade’ will have even seen my other movies. But I don’t want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn’t.

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

I love New York.

I’ve seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

I want to do horror and action, and I’m only being slightly facetious.

It’s really weird to be taken seriously for what you’re wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.

I sang in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ and I sang in ‘A Mighty Wind.’ I can carry a tune, but I don’t like that Broadway singing.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

I think people probably think I self-start, but I don’t… I’m an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.

With ‘Dazed and Confused,’ I got the high school experience I didn’t get to have.

It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They’d call you up and tell you, ‘Hey, jump off this building!’ and they’d give you a hundred bucks, and you’d do it.

I like sitting close to windows.

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

My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They’d wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.

I would love to do something like ‘Fishing With John.’

I feel like there’s such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

I learned how to play mandolin for ‘A Mighty Wind!’

You really don’t get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the ’90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

It’s not really cool to be singled out.

Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

I love ‘Fishing With John’ so much.

The culture is eating nature; it’s overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games – it’s abut the image, not nuance.

People see images now more than they see movies.

I like finding things in locations where I’ve worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it’s often, like, this person’s movies make this amount of money, and this person’s movie makes that amount of money, so let’s put them together.

Why are women always described as ‘desperate,’ while men are just… irrational?

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it’s someone else. I’m mistaken for someone else all the time.

It hasn’t really made it easier getting film work. It’s not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say – insert haughty voice here – ‘It’s Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I’m wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.’

I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before ‘Saturday Night Live’ did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.

I love bayou life.

I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she’s made and obviously wanting more. It’s classic.

I’m glad I’m Southern. I’m the Southerner who’s very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

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

They’re like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

It sounds so dramatic, but I’ll say it: Hollywood just doesn’t know what to do with me. And it’s not for lack of trying.

They love putting me in the ‘indie queen’ box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don’t have anymore.

I’m an actor, so I like costumes.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

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.

I have a brass bed that’s very ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks.’ I got it on eBay. It’s from the early 1900s.

How movies are financed, it’s a world market now… I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It’s like being a part of a punk band, but no one’s singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

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.

I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

Sometimes I go to movies, and it’s just a bombardment, and I’m not entertained by them – I’m assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.

Chris Guest has his own form. It’s a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven’t seen before. You’re asked to care a great deal for these people who you’re playing and create heart and empathy.

I work with directors who haven’t had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it’s an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.

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.

Every time I do something, I worry it’s my last job.

I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother’s a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.

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

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

There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It’s my passion to express that.

I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.

Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn’t be as difficult. I can’t imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.