Quotes by Parker Posey

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
– Parker Posey
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
– Parker Posey
I just think people need to see people act passionately and not be in the sheets. They should be more passionate about their ideas, more passionate about what they believe in. Especially with men, you know, I think male actors are just trying to be macho or trying to be John Wayne, Jack Nicholson, Mickey Rourke, DeNiro, Pacino. They're all short, by the way.
– Parker Posey
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
– Parker Posey
I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
– Parker Posey
There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
– Parker Posey
My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
– Parker Posey
My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
– Parker Posey