Quote

I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they couldn't leave.

Patricia Arquette

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Patricia Arquette
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: April 8
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Actress
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Didn
Mom
Couldn
Single
Leave
Seen
Came
Choices
Friends
Relationships

More quotes by Patricia Arquette

Image
If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that's how we communicate. That doesn't mean people know you. At a certain point, I think you have to just be your own self.
Patricia Arquette
Image
There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.
Patricia Arquette
Image
The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.
Patricia Arquette
Image
I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
Patricia Arquette
Image
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
Patricia Arquette
Image
There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.
Patricia Arquette
Image
As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.
Patricia Arquette
Image
There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.
Patricia Arquette
Image
Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.
Patricia Arquette
Image
I'm the only nerd with a piece of paper.
Patricia Arquette
Image
Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.
Patricia Arquette
Image
The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.
Patricia Arquette
Image
A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be.
Patricia Arquette
Image
I worry about women globally. When we talk about having a presidential candidate who would tear up the Paris accords, who doesn't believe in global warming, we know that poor women and children are going to be the most vulnerable when we start seeing rapid effects of global warming.
Patricia Arquette
Image
Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.
Patricia Arquette
Image
I think there can always be beauty in struggle.
Patricia Arquette
Image
Of course, a lot of courtship and dating is about sexual attraction. If you're an attractive person, you have that sort of interest from people, whether you cater to it or not, but when you get older, that's not really the leading thing anymore.
Patricia Arquette
Image
I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.
Patricia Arquette
Image
To be a woman in law enforcement on television, I think, is sort of important. It's a powerful position for a woman to be in, but also to be looking at these new technologies, exploring these new technologies.
Patricia Arquette
Image
To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!
Patricia Arquette