Top 141 Quotes & Sayings by Parker Posey - Page 2

I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.

I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs... It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it's like notes you pass in class. If someone's passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you're like, oh, 'What are you doing?'

What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.

Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?

When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

I like sitting close to windows.

I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.

Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.

I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.

I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'

I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'

We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'

I'm an actor, so I like costumes.

I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.

I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal.

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.

Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.

We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.

Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.

As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you're like a horse running onto the racetrack.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I sold my apartment this year. It's like, Wow, this is where the arts are now.

I've gotten to portray things in [Christopher Guest's] movies that I wouldn't have in others.

I don't, really a fashionable person. I'm an actor, so I like costumes. But fashion is very popular now. Really overly popular. It's like New Age music in the '80s, or art. And then independent film. Now everyone's a fashion designer. It's had a big effect in New York, in our culture.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level

You're making a fantasy. You're making something real out of a fantasy. And then it no longer exists. It's heartbreaking to leave behind. I was devastated after Waiting for Guffman. I had never gotten so close to people I've worked with.

People are like, 'Was it fun? Did you eat lots of cake?'

I would like a nice, powerful, mind-altering substance. Preferably one that will make my unborn children grow gills.

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

I watch soap operas. I bake brownies. Normalcy is coursing through my veins.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

Black eyeliner says 'You've been through stuff, you know things'.

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.