Quotes by Patricia Clarkson

“Its maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe its a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefully am more secure in mind and body and spirit.”

“I was never girlish. My sense of humor was never quite the fit. My voice was never high enough. I was never sexy in that way.”

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

“But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. Thats really just kind of the highlight of my day.”

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

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

“And its not that I havent 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.”

“The majority of work I do is in independent films, where youre lucky if you have five takes.”

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

“See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.”

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

These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. Its about the one dimension its about the lack of any texture.

Youre always close and you never get that big romantic lead.