Patricia Clarkson Speaks

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.
Patricia Clarkson

And it's not that I haven't taken a money job here and there but for the most part I have been driven by the need to work on a great script.
Patricia Clarkson

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.
Patricia Clarkson

But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. That's really just kind of the highlight of my day.
Patricia Clarkson

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

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

Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
Patricia Clarkson

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.
Patricia Clarkson

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
Patricia Clarkson

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
Patricia Clarkson

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.
Patricia Clarkson

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

I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.
Patricia Clarkson

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

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

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.
Patricia Clarkson

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

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

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
Patricia Clarkson

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
Patricia Clarkson

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.
Patricia Clarkson

It's maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe it's a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefully am more secure in mind and body and spirit.
Patricia Clarkson

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job.
Patricia Clarkson

Maybe I have a certain amount of smarts to say yes because I don't care if I'm not going to make any money because I love the part.
Patricia Clarkson

New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19.
Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
Patricia Clarkson

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
Patricia Clarkson

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Patricia Clarkson

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
Patricia Clarkson

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
Patricia Clarkson

You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
Patricia Clarkson