List of Mary-Louise Parker Quotes

I Really Like The Director [for Weeds]. I Don't Know If You've Spoken To Him Yet But He's Really, Really Intelligent. He Was Just Really Kind When I Met Him And Nice And Really Told Me Why I Should Play The Part...and Kind Of Really Didn't Argue With Him. He's Just Really, Really Smart And Assembled These Really Great People. I Felt Like He Really Knows How To Enlist His Intelligence To Get You - I Don't Know - He's Really Hard To Argue With I Find.

With Tv, There's A Continuum With The Crew And The Cast So You Feel Like You Have A Sense Of Community In A Way, Which Is Similar To Theater.

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.

I'm Not Comfortable With Getting A Job By Being At The Right Hollywood Party; I'm Not A Terribly Sociable Creature.

My Sister's Fish Tacos Are Out Of Control. I'd Give Her A Restaurant If I Were A Gazillionaire.

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.

My Parents Have Been Together For 65 Years. They're Both Really Stubborn. They're Not Quitters.

My Mother Is A Beauty.

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.

In College, My Teachers Were Usually After Me For Going After Comedy Too Much, Leaning Too Much In That Direction.

I Never Feel More Useful Than When I'm Making My Kids A Bowl Of Soup.

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.