Patricia Clarkson Quotations

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

I like to think of myself as a free spirit. I've never married. I'm not conventional in that way. But I do like romance. I've been fortunate enough that I've had great love, and I've dated remarkable men in my life. I'm very thankful for all of that.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.