114 Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker

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

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.

You mean something untranslatable.

There’s something really sweet about the way he’s playing the part and he’s kind of irresistible in a way. They’re both really lonely. That’s kind of established from the very beginning in the movie. The way they meet is just classic, lonely losers.

I feel like movies, if there’s any kind of budget whatsoever, there’s so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.

It’s the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is – you can’t get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.

It’s because of you that I can go to any church and take whatever the service has to offer, all of it up for interpretation except kindness.

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

Well, it’s kind of like that classic sort of trajectory in this kind of movie where there’s conflict and they’re estranged and they kind of grow to love each other but they don’t show it. Then at the end – it’s kind of like that. But I think the characters are more interesting than that.