Patricia Clarkson Quotes & Sayings

Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked. — Patricia Clarkson

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

That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have. — Patricia Clarkson

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

I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family. — Patricia Clarkson

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

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

I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I've been fortunate enough that I've had great love, and I've dated remarkable men in my life. I'm very thankful for all of that. — 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 don't like a lot of rehearsing. — Patricia Clarkson

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

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

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

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever. — 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

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy. — Patricia Clarkson

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