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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.

Mary-Louise Parker

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Mary-Louise Parker
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 2
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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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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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My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
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I'm just damseling mostly. I'm not very good with a gun.
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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 get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
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I haven't read the comic book. I didn't even know there was one until about halfway though. Helen Mirren and I were talking about that actually, who also felt kind of silly. When we had to run she was like, 'Oh God, we're both going to get fired.' The running sequences, it's a particular kind of humiliation because it's fun.
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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 like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
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