Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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
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
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
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
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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

Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Clarkson

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