Top 55 Parker Posey Quotes

I thought I’d have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we’ve seen that type almost disappear.

I’m a good girl, you know? But I’m from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.

Every time I do something, I worry it’s my last job.

When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn’t take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we’d still go and find the ones with personality.

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I’ve just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.

I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.

I want to do horror and action, and I’m only being slightly facetious.

Sometimes I go to movies, and it’s just a bombardment, and I’m not entertained by them – I’m assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.

I like sitting close to windows.

I would love to do something like ‘Fishing With John.’

I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It’s my passion to express that.

I have a brass bed that’s very ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks.’ I got it on eBay. It’s from the early 1900s.

As an artist, you’re always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I’ve really achieved something.

There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I’ve continued to work.

I learned how to play mandolin for ‘A Mighty Wind!’

Why are women always described as ‘desperate,’ while men are just… irrational?

I sang in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ and I sang in ‘A Mighty Wind.’ I can carry a tune, but I don’t like that Broadway singing.

You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the ’90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I’m doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it’s very strange.

I like trying different foods. I’ve done vegetarian stuff, and I’ve gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I’m really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are.

I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs… It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it’s like notes you pass in class. If someone’s passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you’re like, oh, ‘What are you doing?’

It hasn’t really made it easier getting film work. It’s not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say – insert haughty voice here – ‘It’s Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I’m wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.’

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

I’ve seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn’t be as difficult. I can’t imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.

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

Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.

I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.

When I did ‘Guffman,’ it was terrifying. I didn’t know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

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

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What’s going on in their heart? There’s that that I think about with every role.

I think people probably think I self-start, but I don’t… I’m an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.

It’s not really cool to be singled out.

How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They’d call you up and tell you, ‘Hey, jump off this building!’ and they’d give you a hundred bucks, and you’d do it.

I like soap opera acting. If it’s done really well, there’s nothing better. It’s old school. It’s like what those melodramas in the ’30s and ’40s were like.

The five patients in ‘Rethinking Cancer’ share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

In case you don’t know this, we’re not in the ’90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.

I’m an actor, so I like costumes.

Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don’t bug him. He’s able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone’s like, ‘Oh my God! We love this.’

People see images now more than they see movies.

I was reading this book called ‘Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.’ It’s really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.

They love putting me in the ‘indie queen’ box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don’t have anymore.

What’s the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That’s what I wanna know!

I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.

I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before ‘Saturday Night Live’ did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared.

I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me.

I love New York.

I like to support local record stores.

With ‘Dazed and Confused,’ I got the high school experience I didn’t get to have.

I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was ‘Party Girl’ or ‘House of Yes.’ But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

I’m kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.