Patricia Clarkson Quotes
- I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
- I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
- I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
- I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
- And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and…
- I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
- I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
- I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
- I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
- But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
- But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
- New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
- The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
- Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
- See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
- The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
- I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
- I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
- If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
- Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.