Top 20 Patricia Clarkson Quotes

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

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it’s been a great ride.

I think it’s always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

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

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

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

I don’t like a lot of rehearsing.

I’ll read a script maybe twice, but I’ll think about the role more than I’ll rehearse lines.

Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

I’m still traumatized that I’m going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

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

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

When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I’ve had certain directors yell at me. But I didn’t stand for it, and I didn’t let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

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.

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

You’re always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

It’s never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that’s my job.

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

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