Mary-Louise Parker Quotes

• 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.

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• 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.

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• I feel like movies, if there’s any kind of budget whatsoever, there’s so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

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• 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.

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• The theater is who I am – it’s where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

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• My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

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• My sister’s fish tacos are out of control. I’d give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

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• My parents have been together for 65 years. They’re both really stubborn. They’re not quitters.

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• My mother is a beauty.

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• Look, I don’t care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

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• In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

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• I’m not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I’m not a terribly sociable creature.

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• 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.

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• I never feel more useful than when I’m making my kids a bowl of soup.

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• I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They’re so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

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• I just want to make lunches and organize my kids’ playroom.

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• I have to say, I haven’t really worked with that many people in my career that I haven’t liked, which I think is really rare.

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• I have a child and I don’t want to be at work all the time when he’s small. I want to spend time with him.

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• I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone’s vegan cookbook is awesome.

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• I don’t think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

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Mary-Louise Parker (28)

Birth:	2nd August, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress. Best known for her lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006. Parker has appeared in films and series such as RED, RED 2, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, The West Wing, and Angels in America, for which she received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Parker is also the recipient of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress for the Broadway play Proof.

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