Parker Posey Quotes
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I've gotten to portray things in [Christopher Guest's] movies that I wouldn't have in others.
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As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you're like a horse running onto the racetrack.
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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].
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In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.
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Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.
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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.
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I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we're waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.
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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.
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I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
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I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].
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Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.
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I'm a grown-up and I'm a creative person so I should try to give something to that and see what I can make with that. And not sit around listening to people be like, 'You really should be on an HBO show. You'd be great on an Amazon series.' You're like, 'Thank you, okay. I don't have any offers.'
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I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
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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.
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
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I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.
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I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.
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An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.
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With Dazed and Confused I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. So you do create families and homes. You're projecting and it's your job. The amount of time and headspace and thought it takes on your psyche is huge. It's exhausting, yeah. And it's exhausting but it's also great.
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I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.
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I'm having too good of a time.
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The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in the '90s becoming part of a system where financiers and movie stars could change the material. I came along just before all that happened.
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I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.
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I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.
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