Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker

“Ill take any trophy. I dont care what it says on it.”

“I thought we were all kind of desperate housewives. Mine was just a little more desperate than they were.”

“I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you.”

“I was really surprised. I thought Felicity [Huffman ] would win. I think were all desperate housewives. My character is just a little bit more desperate than theirs.”

“I dont think its that controversial. Im really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. Im surprised they werent.”

“The first thing I ever bought for myself was a green Lacoste shirt.”

“Dont have a fall back, because if you do, youll fall back.”

Enraged is the wrong word, but I felt like I wanted to kick you in the shins and then make you banana bread. I wanted to key your car and take you out for dim sum. It was admiration, passion and that voice of yours all mushing together and disarming me, making me want smash something and kiss someone.

Thank you, NASA, for keeping watch and realizing that our universe will never be anything but light-years new. I want to understand that, and I am so comforted by the fact that I cant. It only proves that some things wont allow themselves to be understood. They arent for us to know and theres rapture in that, dont you think? Are you happy there, with your eyes glued to the heavens? You know so much, like why the ocean doesnt fall out of the sky, and that there is no upside down. There is no up.

I have to hold that up as a metaphor for everything, being prepared and then being brave enough to just be there. Just listen and follow, maybe jump. Everyone leans in, it brings them into your emotional vicinity because, you said Risk creates intimacy

Space is entirely poetic.

There was no one for you to impress and no one for you to offend. You were right there and I was afraid of how real you were, which made me question my own level of authenticity. Id take off my clothes on the beach or spill my guts to a girl Id never met on the bus, thinking I was uncensored and open, but I wasnt always real if I wanted someone to like me. I gravitated to those who withheld or told me who they thought I was.

My mother is a beauty.