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I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

Mary-Louise Parker

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Mary-Louise Parker
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 2
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Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.
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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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My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
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I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now.
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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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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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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 just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.
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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 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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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 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'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.
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Don’t have a fall back, because if you do, you’ll fall back.
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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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I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
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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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My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
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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.
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