Quotes from Patricia Clarkson

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.

The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.