Quotes by Parker Posey

“There are all these scripts where the women, if theyre working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak wholl kill you. Its a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.”

“I wouldnt say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.”

“I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents dont realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.”

“But its fun to be something, have that, and you dont have to be real. Its like, comedians. They go on and theyre doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.”

“I like soap opera acting. If its done really well, theres nothing better. Its old school. Its like what those melodramas in the 30s and 40s were like.”

“Look around, ... Everyones crying with you.”

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before Saturday Night Live did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.

Its always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. Youd think thered be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone elses emotional life.

I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

Its not really cool to be singled out.

How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

The five patients in Rethinking Cancer share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while Im doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents dont realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? Its really sad to me.

When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldnt take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, wed still go and find the ones with personality.