Mary-Louise Parker famous quotes

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

#People #Being Different #Different

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Nice #Women #Reason

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

#Mother #Thinking #Nuclear Families

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

#People #Faces #Familiar

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.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Self #Self Conscious #Conscious

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Los Angeles

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

#Skins #Avocados

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Tired #Hearing

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Crazy #Refreshing #Persons

I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Mother #Weed #Marijuana

I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact,
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#August #Facts #Naked

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

#Jobs #Party #Hollywood

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Cooking #Baking #Vegan

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.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Thinking #Careers #People

I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Kids #Lunch #Want

I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Kids #Soup #Feels

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.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Thinking #People #Tvs

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

#Teacher #College #Too Much

I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Children #Want #Spend Time

I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Marijuana #Thinking #People

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

#Stupid #Comfort #Sometimes

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Girl #School #Faces

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

#Portraits #Kind #Corny

Don’t have a fall back, because if you do, you’ll fall back.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Fall #Fall Back

The first thing I ever bought for myself was a green Lacoste shirt.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Firsts #Green #Shirts

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.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Hurt #Powerful #Believe

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.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Want #Faces #My Favorite

I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Blood #Sugar #Six

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.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Character #Thinking #Behaviour

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.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Kindness #Guy #Demand

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

#Home #Who I Am #Inspired

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Fists #Way #Combat

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Years #Parent #Together

My mother is a beauty.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Mother

Mediocrity is underrated.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Mediocrity #Underrated

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Insecure #Care #Likes

My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#Giving #Tacos #My Sister