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Patricia Clarkson Quotes
Patricia Clarkson Quotes
Patricia Clarkson
American
Actress
Born:
Dec 29
,
1959
Always
Great
Me
Older
Think
You
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
Patricia Clarkson
Good
Great
People
Luxury
Films
Great People
Had
Working
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
Patricia Clarkson
Business
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Think
Distance
Would
Would-Be
Without
Go
Hard
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
Patricia Clarkson
Women
Rule
Exception
Comedic
Parts
Why
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Patricia Clarkson
You
Business
Woman
Odds
Older
Favor
Get
Your
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
Odds
Nice
Defy
Would
Fine
Had
Been
Just
Successful
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
Patricia Clarkson
Writer
Writers
Because
Maybe
Just
Thing
It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
Patricia Clarkson
Dark
Job
Circumstances
Characters
Easy
Never
Grave
You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
Patricia Clarkson
You
Big
Lead
Never
Always
Close
Get
Romantic
Romantic Lead
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
Patricia Clarkson
Character
Think
Took
Character Actor
Enter
Kind
Leading
Ladies
Being
Now
Actor
And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.
Patricia Clarkson
Sexier
Parts
Gotten
Oddly
Than
Getting
Now
Ever
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
Beautiful
Great
Me
You
Smart
Guided
Say
Almost
Know
She
Aesthetic
Oxymoron
Agent
Really
If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
Patricia Clarkson
Great
Ride
Honey
Been
Train
Stops
Gravy
These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
Patricia Clarkson
Women
Sometimes
Skin
Older
Dimension
Archetypal
About
Make
Texture
Any
Lack
Crawl
Movies
Older Women
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.
Patricia Clarkson
Me
People
Enough
Way
Directors
Had
Course
Go
Yell
Any
Younger
Far
Certain
Act
Stand
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.
Patricia Clarkson
Character
Me
You
Fly
Older
Scenes
Put
Know
Couple
Dead
Parts
Just
Gonna
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