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Patricia Clarkson
American
Actress
About the author
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Sense
#Business
#Humor
But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#People
#Luxury
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#University
I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Actor
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,
American
Actress
If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Circumstances
#Job
#Grave
New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Awards
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Woman
#Business
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Women
You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Romantic
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Love
#Friends
#Writers
I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Now
The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Work
#Majority
I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
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,
American
Actress
#Successful
I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Character
#First
I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Day
#News
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Writers
#Writer
And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Now
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Character
#Now
#Being
#Leading
#Actor
#Ladies
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,
American
Actress
I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Film
#Intimacy
Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
Patricia Clarkson,
American
Actress
#Work
#Holly