Quotes from Mary-Louise Parker

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

My mother is a beauty.

I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.

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

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

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.

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 often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

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

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

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.

I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.

Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Mediocrity is underrated.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.