Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker

About Mary-Louise Parker:

Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress. Best known for her lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006. Parker has appeared in films and series such as RED, RED 2, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, The West Wing, and Angels in America, for which she received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Parker is also the recipient of the 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in the Broadway play Proof.
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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

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

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

Mary-Louise Parker

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

Mary-Louise Parker

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

Mary-Louise Parker

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

Mary-Louise Parker

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

Mary-Louise Parker

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mary-Louise Parker

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

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

Mary-Louise Parker

I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.

Mary-Louise Parker

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

Mary-Louise Parker

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

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My mother is a beauty.

Mary-Louise Parker

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

Mary-Louise Parker

Author Bio

  • NameMary-Louise Parker
  • Descriptionactress
  • BornAugust 2, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor