Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker

With TV, there’s a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater.

It’s transparent, how willing we are to dismiss the intelligence of someone who rejects us, as though that renders them incapable of sound judgement.

I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don’t remember where.

I can’t take credit for more than remembering to point to you when I do something right and for continuing to put one foot in front of the other when I lose heart. We.

I couldn’t get life loud enough.

You are what makes me indomitable and how I know to keep walking when I feel crippled in every conceivable way.

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

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.

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