Patricia Clarkson Quotes

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

- Patricia Clarkson

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

- Patricia Clarkson

The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'

- Patricia Clarkson

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 she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

- Patricia Clarkson

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

- Patricia Clarkson

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

- Patricia Clarkson

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

- Patricia Clarkson

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

- Patricia Clarkson

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

- Patricia Clarkson

These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.

- Patricia Clarkson

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

- Patricia Clarkson

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

- Patricia Clarkson

Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

- Patricia Clarkson

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

- Patricia Clarkson

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

- Patricia Clarkson

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

- Patricia Clarkson

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

- Patricia Clarkson

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

- Patricia Clarkson

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

- Patricia Clarkson

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

- Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

- Patricia Clarkson

There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!

- Patricia Clarkson

Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

- Patricia Clarkson

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

- Patricia Clarkson

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

- Patricia Clarkson

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

- Patricia Clarkson

When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

- Patricia Clarkson

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

- Patricia Clarkson

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

- Patricia Clarkson

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

- Patricia Clarkson

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

- Patricia Clarkson