Patricia Arquette Quotes

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Patricia Arquette

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 8, 1968

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

Patricia Arquette

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

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My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

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Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.

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I've crafted a really weird career for myself.

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I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.

Patricia Arquette

We all go through life living in little bubbles, which we share with people who think pretty much the same as us.

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When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.

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Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

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I find that men are far more vain than women.

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Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.

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We all have our own little thing, I think.

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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

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You want your partner to objectify you.

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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.

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For some people, when you walk into a room, what your fame means to them can be like pointing a weird gun at them. It triggers something. They might get really giggly or flirty or cold or confrontational.

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I don't think I would have had much of a career if I didn't have my son.

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This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.

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