Parker Posey Quotes

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

  Parker Posey

  Black, Stuff, Eyeliner

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

  Parker Posey

  Children, Powerful, Nice

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• I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

  Parker Posey

  Men, People, Bears

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Parker Posey

  Watches, Veins, Normalcy

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• 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

  Parker Posey

  Men, Leaving, Levels

  Interview with Christina Kelly, www.indexmagazine.com. 1996.

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

  Parker Posey

  Careers, Luck, Actors

  "Between Luck and Resilience: Parker Posey on ‘Irrational Man’ and Working with Woody Allen". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2015.

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

  Parker Posey

  Queens, Littles

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• It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

  Parker Posey

  Voice, Stuff, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Parker Posey

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Parker Posey

  Talking, Play, Acting

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Parker Posey

  Art, Years, Wow

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Pop songs now, they're about the aftermath of love.

  Parker Posey

  Song, Aftermath, Pops

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

  Parker Posey

  People, Adults, Knows

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Parker Posey

  Fashion, Art, Independent

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

  Parker Posey

  Girl, Character, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Parker Posey

  Directors, Different, Indie Movie

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. And that was the real disappointment of the time. You'd see great writer-directors in the '90s becoming part of a system where financiers and movie stars could change the material. I came along just before all that happened.

  Parker Posey

  Stars, Disappointment, Real

  Source: www.elle.com

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• With Dazed and Confused I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. So you do create families and homes. You're projecting and it's your job. The amount of time and headspace and thought it takes on your psyche is huge. It's exhausting, yeah. And it's exhausting but it's also great.

  Parker Posey

  Jobs, Confused, Home

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

  Parker Posey

  Order, People, Agents

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• 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].

  Parker Posey

  Book, Looks, Next

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.

  Parker Posey

  Media, Stuff, Digital

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we're waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.

  Parker Posey

  Mom, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

  Parker Posey

  Deer, Foxes, Bears

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

  Parker Posey

  Thinking, Directors, Tough

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Parker Posey

  Real, People, Waiting

  Source: www.elle.com

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