Parker Posey Quotes

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Parker Posey

Profession : Actress

Birth : November 8, 1968

Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.

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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.

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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.

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It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.

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I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

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Mainly I love working on good writing.

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I like sitting close to windows.

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I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

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I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

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Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.

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I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.

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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.

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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

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