114 Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker

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

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.

You can tell actually when he starts to talk about his family, or his Daughters, or his Wife, and his whole face – really he’s so really kind of a dear.

We all miss you something fierce, those of us who wouldn’t exist had you not kept walking when an ordinary person would have fallen to their knees. To convey in any existing language how I miss you isn’t possible. It would be like blue trying to describe the ocean.

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.

I’m just damseling mostly. I’m not very good with a gun.

Faith to you was more clay than mortar, and if you could interpret the gospel, so could I. So should anyone. If God wasn’t mad at you for drinking wine and chain-smoking and being a homosexual, he might forgive me for stealing a kitten and trying to hide it under a blanket in the back of our station wagon. Certainly that God was preferable to others who wouldn’t let you in Heaven if you said bad words or drank Mountain Dew.

I hear people say, “It happened for a reason,” or “It’s part of God’s plan,” and I wish that made sense to me but it doesn’t.

I said I don’t know how to say no, I only know how to yell it.