Mary-Louise Parker Quotes

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
Mary-Louise Parker

School, Girl, Different

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.
Mary-Louise Parker

Love, Great, Pretty

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
Mary-Louise Parker

Work, Tired, Somebody

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
Mary-Louise Parker

Live, Press, Angeles

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.
Mary-Louise Parker

Movies, Often, Serves

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

Put, Face, Familiar

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.
Mary-Louise Parker

Playing, Whether, Characters

I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
Mary-Louise Parker

Family, Good, Mother

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.
Mary-Louise Parker

Enjoy, Awesome, Cooking

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.
Mary-Louise Parker

Work, Movies, Blood

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

Work, Time, Him

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.
Mary-Louise Parker

Career, Worked, Liked

I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.
Mary-Louise Parker

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.
Mary-Louise Parker

Corny, Soothing, Ingenious

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.
Mary-Louise Parker

Kindness, Help, Tough

I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.
Mary-Louise Parker

Kids, Making, Useful

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.
Mary-Louise Parker

Remember, Why, Tv

I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.
Mary-Louise Parker

Job, Getting, Party

In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
Mary-Louise Parker

After, College, Comedy

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
Mary-Louise Parker

Good, Stupid, Sometimes

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
Mary-Louise Parker

Life, Work, Care

Mediocrity is underrated.
Mary-Louise Parker

Mediocrity, Underrated

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.
Mary-Louise Parker

Movies, Him, Face

My mother is a beauty.
Mary-Louise Parker

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
Mary-Louise Parker

Parents, Together, Both

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Nationality: American

Born: August 2, 1964

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