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Parker Posey

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 8, 1968

When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.

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I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.

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What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

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I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.

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I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.

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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

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

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I love bayou life.

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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

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

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I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

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My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.

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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

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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 don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

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I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

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