Top 30 Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

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.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

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.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

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

I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

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.