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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.

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
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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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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 just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.
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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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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 never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
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I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I really like to work. Otherwise my blood sugar just drops, you know, six hours sitting in a camper.
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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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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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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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My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
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Don’t have a fall back, because if you do, you’ll fall back.
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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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I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.
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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 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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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'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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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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