Patricia Clarkson Quotes

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

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

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

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

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.

I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I've been fortunate enough that I've had great love, and I've dated remarkable men in my life. I'm very thankful for all of that.

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.

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

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

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

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