Mary-Louise Parker

Actress

1964-08-02

Quotes by Mary-Louise Parker

• Enraged is the wrong word, but I felt like I wanted to kick you in the shins and then make you banana bread. I wanted to key your car and take you out for dim sum. It was admiration, passion and that voice of yours all mushing together and disarming me, making me want smash something and kiss someone.

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• Enraged is the wrong word, but I felt like I wanted to kick you in the shins and then make you banana bread. I wanted to key your car and take you out for dim sum. It was admiration, passion and that voice of yours all mushing together and disarming me, making me want smash something and kiss someone.

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

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

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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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• Mediocrity is underrated.

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• I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

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