Patricia Clarkson Quotes


"I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Actor)

"I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!"
- Patricia Clarkson
"If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride."
- Patricia Clarkson
"It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Circumstances, Grave, Job)

"New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19."
- Patricia Clarkson
"See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Awards)

"The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Business, Woman)

"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?"
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Women)

"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Romantic)

"I love writers. All of my best friends are writers."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Love, Friends, Writers)

"I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Now)

"The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Work, Majority)

"I don't like a lot of rehearsing."
- Patricia Clarkson
"I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Business, Humor, Sense)

"I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines."
- Patricia Clarkson
"But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: People, Luxury)

"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Successful)

"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Character, First)

"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Day, News)

"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Writer, Writers)

"And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Now)

"I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Character, Actor, Being, Ladies, Leading, Now)

"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."
- Patricia Clarkson
"I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Film, Intimacy)

"Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever."
- Patricia Clarkson
(Related: Work, Holly)