Quotations and phrases - 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

And it's not that I haven't taken a money job here and there but for the most part I have been driven by the need to work on a great script.
-- Patricia Clarkson

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

But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. That's really just kind of the highlight of my day.
-- Patricia Clarkson

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

Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
-- Patricia Clarkson

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
-- Patricia Clarkson

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
-- Patricia Clarkson

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

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
-- Patricia Clarkson

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
-- Patricia Clarkson

I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.
-- Patricia Clarkson

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe it's a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefully am more secure in mind and body and spirit.
-- Patricia Clarkson

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

Maybe I have a certain amount of smarts to say yes because I don't care if I'm not going to make any money because I love the part.
-- Patricia Clarkson

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

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
-- Patricia Clarkson

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

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

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
-- 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

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