"And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me." - Patricia Clarkson
"And it's not that I haven't taken a money job here and there but for the most part I have been driven by the need to work on a great script." - Patricia Clarkson
"And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten." - Patricia Clarkson
"And there were many parts I didn't get. I was always kind of grasping at things." - Patricia Clarkson
"Any further recognition is great because it always brings attention to the films and I just want people to see the movies." - Patricia Clarkson
"But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. That's really just kind of the highlight of my day." - Patricia Clarkson
"But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people." - Patricia Clarkson
"But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds." - Patricia Clarkson
"Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever." - Patricia Clarkson
"I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally." - Patricia Clarkson
"I don't like a lot of rehearsing." - Patricia Clarkson
"I have to watch the news or my day is not complete." - Patricia Clarkson
"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer." - Patricia Clarkson
"I love writers. All of my best friends are writers." - Patricia Clarkson
"I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts." - Patricia Clarkson
"I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies." - Patricia Clarkson
"I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor." - Patricia Clarkson
"I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy." - Patricia Clarkson
"I was never girlish. My sense of humor was never quite the fit. My voice was never high enough. I was never sexy in that way." - Patricia Clarkson
"I'd say the majority of the films I go see are art films, but I sometimes like to see big-budget pictures." - Patricia Clarkson
"I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines." - Patricia Clarkson
"I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must." - Patricia Clarkson
"I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director." - Patricia Clarkson
"I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!" - Patricia Clarkson
"If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride." - Patricia Clarkson
"It's maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe it's a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefully am more secure in mind and body and spirit." - Patricia Clarkson
"It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job." - Patricia Clarkson
"Maybe I have a certain amount of smarts to say yes because I don't care if I'm not going to make any money because I love the part." - Patricia Clarkson
"My major was liberal arts, but I studied a lot of theater, Fordham had an amazing theater program - really comprehensive." - Patricia Clarkson
"New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19." - Patricia Clarkson
"No, in high school I was kind of like a cheerleader. I was a Chargerette." - Patricia Clarkson
"See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise." - Patricia Clarkson
"The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes." - Patricia Clarkson
"The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business." - Patricia Clarkson
"Two movies with a combined budget of under a million bucks is like yahoo!" - Patricia Clarkson
"Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University." - Patricia Clarkson
"Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?" - Patricia Clarkson
"You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead." - Patricia Clarkson
