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I don't often see the movies I'm in I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

Mary-Louise Parker

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Mary-Louise Parker
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 2
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
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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 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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Don’t have a fall back, because if you do, you’ll fall back.
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My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
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I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.
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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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Mediocrity is underrated.
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It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.
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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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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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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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I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.
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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.
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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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My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
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Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.
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I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
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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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I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.
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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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