I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face. Mary-Louise Parker More Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker More Quotes From Mary-Louise Parker I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him. Mary-Louise Parker spend-time want children 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. Mary-Louise Parker careers people thinking Don’t have a fall back, because if you do, you’ll fall back. Mary-Louise Parker fall-back ifs fall I don't think anyone honestly would hire me, so I don't think I have to worry but, if it was well written I would do it. I would do anything. Mary-Louise Parker honestly worry thinking I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup. Mary-Louise Parker soup feels kids 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. Mary-Louise Parker tvs people thinking 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. Mary-Louise Parker powerful hurt believe 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. Mary-Louise Parker demand guy kindness I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing. Mary-Louise Parker corny portraits kind My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up. Mary-Louise Parker combat fists way People ask me, 'Why are you doing a show on Showtime?' Because I'll do anything really, I don't really care, I'll do a show on Nickelodeon if I thought it was well written. Actually Nickelodeon's kind of awesome. Mary-Louise Parker care kind people 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. Mary-Louise Parker wife daughter faces You can never really tell, it's kind of a red herring until you see the project I think. You just know if you like working with someone or not, and he does have a real sweetness about him, I think. Mary-Louise Parker red real thinking Yeah, when you work with somebody that famous everybody wants to know what are they like or - but I know some of the movies that I know because they're more like NOBODY'S FOOL or like that, because I don't really watch the big R movies, I haven't really seen them so much. I loved him [Bruce Willis] from his TV show and some of the smaller movies he's done. The bigger movies I start to space out in, like, there just so, I don't really watch those kind of movies so much. Mary-Louise Parker tv-shows space done I thought the other ones were so obviously - what are we going to do if she burns down the house? The DEA, which I think was maybe the best one because she's wearing the jacket when she goes through the mirror and I think that was kind of amazing because you really weren't expecting that. There's something almost slapstick about this in a way that worried me. It was a little pratfalley with the golf club and the - but I think it probably cut together okay. Mary-Louise Parker cutting golf thinking I always wondered what people thought of it because it looked so stupid to me on the page and I loved the other finale so I thought it was going to be really stupid but some people really liked it. Mary-Louise Parker pages stupid people Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly vague but I never set out to be likeable or funny or anything like that. I'm just trying to tell the story in the best way that I can and serve the writer because it's really about the writer. Mary-Louise Parker stories sound trying Just when I got out of school, I seemed to get hired for a lot of dramatic things, and people tend to remember you how they've seen you the first time. Mary-Louise Parker remember people school
