Quotes by Parker Posey

Parker Posey

An actor’s career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

Actors

Careers

Luck

As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you’re like a horse running onto the racetrack.

Actors

Horse

Running

Black eyeliner says ‘You’ve been through stuff, you know things’.

Black

Eyeliner

Stuff

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

Comedian

Fun

Real

Chris Guest has his own form. It’s a way of working that is really intense and you can commit a lot and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven’t seen before. You’re asked to care a great deal for these people who you’re playing and create heart and empathy.

Focus

Heart

People

Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

Audience

Independent

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.

Agents

Order

People

I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he’s wonderful. He’s such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we’re waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.

Mom

Son

Thinking

I don’t have a publisher yet, so I’m not in the process of that next stage and I don’t know what that’s going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

Book

Looks

I don’t know what’s going on with new media and digital stuff. It’s all changing.

Digital

Media

Stuff

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Able

Acting

Actors

Adults

Aftermath

Age

Agents

Art

Attitude

Audience

Bears

Black

Black And White

Book

Cake

Careers

Character

Children

Comedian

Confused

Cousin

Crafts

Dad

Deer

Different

Digital

Directors

Disappointment

Done

Drama

Eyeliner

Fashion

Focus

Foxes

Fun

Girl

Giving

Grandfather

Grandmother

Guests

Guy

Hbo

Heart

Hollywood Films

Home

Horse

Independent

Indie Movie

Intense

Jobs

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Quotes by Parker Posey

Parker Posey

An actor’s career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you’re like a horse running onto the racetrack.

Black eyeliner says ‘You’ve been through stuff, you know things’.

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

Early on it was much easier to play leads, but now independent movies are being co-opted by the studio system, and they want bigger names to guarantee more audience and more numbers.

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.

I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he’s wonderful. He’s such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we’re waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.

I don’t have a publisher yet, so I’m not in the process of that next stage and I don’t know what that’s going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

I don’t know what’s going on with new media and digital stuff. It’s all changing.

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