Patricia Clarkson Quotes

Parts that are desexed, matronly - to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

Patricia Clarkson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 29, 1959

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CharacterMeFlyYouKnowDead

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

Max Greenfield

RelationshipDayEndWalkingTalking

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

GreatYouWantWriteWriter

All I care about is the story and telling the story. I don't care how people ingest it.

Steven Soderbergh

PeopleStoryCareTellingHowAbout

One of the big surprises for me about Einstein was... that he wasn't this big introvert; he was more like a novelist or a painter. It's amazing how close society came to not benefiting from Albert Einstein's genius.

Ron Howard

AmazingMeSocietyGeniusMoreBig

The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we're taking steps to make sure that we're even more - how shall we say it - fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it's time to run our campaigns.

Michael Steele

LeadershipTimeSayRunConservative

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

FireWashingtonSoldiersThrown

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

Richard Ford

WorkColleaguesWriteHardNasty

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Khalil Gibran

WindBlameTreesYouSecretsReveal

I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.

Jamie Dornan

WorkSayingThinkLossYouI Can

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Guy Debord

LifeEverythingPrevailLivedModern

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

Grant Heslov

WritingStoryPuzzleThinkBigLike

They that trust in the Lord shall never be confounded!

George Muller

TrustNeverLordShallConfounded

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