114 Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker

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

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

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.

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

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

I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.

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.

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

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