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" My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. "
Parker Posey
Grandfather
Lefty
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" I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron. "
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" It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.' "
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" I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me. "
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" Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it. "
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" I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice. "
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" Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange. "
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" I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me. "
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" I usually play character parts in Hollywood films. "
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" I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life. "
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" I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks. "
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" There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work. "
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" I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role. "
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Love
" I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me. "
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Work
" 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. "
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" How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important. "
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" I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic. "
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" I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should. "
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" It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life. "
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" There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together. "
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" Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational? "
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" Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange. "
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" My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up. "
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" I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf. "
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" People see images now more than they see movies. "
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" I like to support local record stores. "
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" How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them. "
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" I love New York. "
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" People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time. "
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" You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that. "
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You