Parker Posey Quotes

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Parker Posey

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 8, 1968

Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.

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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.

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

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I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.

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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.

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It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

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It's not really cool to be singled out.

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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.

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People see images now more than they see movies.

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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

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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.

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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.

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It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd 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 else's emotional life.

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You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.

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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'

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I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

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I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

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