152 Quotes by Parker Posey

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

I’m having too good of a time.

Time is weird in your twenties. It’s intense, and you feel like it’s running out. But you’ll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

I wouldn’t say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

I’m the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don’t realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather’s cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they’re working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who’ll kill you. It’s a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.