Mary-Louise Parker Quotes

My mother is a beauty.

Words are really powerful. I don’t believe that axiom at all – words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I’ll take sticks and stones.

My parents have been together for 65 years. They’re both really stubborn. They’re not quitters.

I’m not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I’m not a terribly sociable creature.

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

The theater is who I am – it’s where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird‘: You see him where he‘s on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don’t want to see his face.

Look, I don’t care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I have to say, I haven‘t really worked with that many people in my career that I haven’t liked, which I think is really rare.

My sister‘s fish tacos are out of control. I’d give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

I don’t live in Los Angeles and I don’t do a lot of superfluous press.

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

I like to pretend that I’m a tough guy. It’s kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help – or even kindness. But if it doesn’t come, at some point I snap and demand it.

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

It’s good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They’re so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

I feel like movies, if there’s any kind of budget whatsoever, there’s so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

I don’t really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I’m playing. I’m more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they’re doing in a certain scene.

I don’t think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

I never feel more useful than when I’m making my kids a bowl of soup.