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

Mary-Louise Parker

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Mary-Louise Parker
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 2
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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.
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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.
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My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
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My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
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I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a regularity to the schedule. You have to finish an episode by a certain day. Movies can just go on interminably.
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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.
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I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.
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I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. 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.
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I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party I'm not a terribly sociable creature.
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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.
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The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
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Toronto I've worked in so many times so you kind of just know every store, every hotel, every - it's really close to New York so it's awesome for my children so if I have to go home for two days it doesn't take very much time. Except for Air Canada. Air Canada is the worst part.
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I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
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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.
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We're dodging bullets and this is right after we've just seen [inaudible] shot and we're running and the woman who John accused of being out to kill us and everyone thought he was kidding. When we see her she appears and she's after us.
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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.
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I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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