Parker Posey quote: "It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it."

I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
PARKER POSEY

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l...
PARKER POSEY

Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
PARKER POSEY

I love bayou life.
PARKER POSEY

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old sch...
PARKER POSEY

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to mo...
PARKER POSEY

Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his...
PARKER POSEY

They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I do...
PARKER POSEY

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from ...
PARKER POSEY

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you ...
PARKER POSEY

I have a twin brother, so I was around guys like a sister. It was comfortable to me.
PARKER POSEY

The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
PARKER POSEY

It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And ...
PARKER POSEY

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the coura...
PARKER POSEY

I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's n...
PARKER POSEY

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
PARKER POSEY

I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down th...
PARKER POSEY

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
PARKER POSEY

I care about being creative and expressing myself.
PARKER POSEY

What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's wha...
PARKER POSEY

I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this d...
PARKER POSEY

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, dee...
PARKER POSEY

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers wit...
PARKER POSEY

They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would h...
PARKER POSEY

I like sitting close to windows.
PARKER POSEY

It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a...
PARKER POSEY

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Th...
PARKER POSEY

Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I&#...
PARKER POSEY

I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school i...
PARKER POSEY

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
PARKER POSEY

Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around ...
PARKER POSEY

My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an...
PARKER POSEY

I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.
PARKER POSEY

You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
PARKER POSEY

My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
PARKER POSEY

Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as diff...
PARKER POSEY

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
PARKER POSEY

I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
PARKER POSEY

It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a...
PARKER POSEY

The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it...
PARKER POSEY

I like to support local record stores.
PARKER POSEY

It's not really cool to be singled out.
PARKER POSEY

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movi...
PARKER POSEY

Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.
A.D. POSEY

Novelist by day; screenwriter by night.
A.D. POSEY

All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience.
A.D. POSEY

We are the thoughts we choose to keep.
A.D. POSEY

I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.
TYLER POSEY

Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them.
A.D. POSEY

Vulnerability is the portal to feeling. Feeling is the portal to strength.
A.D. POSEY

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexi...
TYLER POSEY

The world is blessed to welcome you.
A.D. POSEY

Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.
A.D. POSEY

The moves they made this summer were big. It shows the direction they're headed.
JAMES POSEY

There wasn't any confusion. For the most part, it's just being consistent. San Antonio has been toge...
JAMES POSEY

We just need everybody healthy, get everybody on the same page and in a rhythm and finish the season...
JAMES POSEY

He looked pretty good. He was D. Wade. If anything, [he was] a little sluggish for the most part. Bu...
JAMES POSEY

Writers are cut open on the page.
A.D. POSEY

Pour your heart onto the page.
A.D. POSEY

Her words dance on the page.
A.D. POSEY

Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.
A.D. POSEY

I chose to be a writer no more than I chose to be female.
A.D. POSEY

In the equation of life, the limit does not exist.
A.D. POSEY

It was a collision, and that's all it was. I guess that is [the league's] job to call it. We'll have...
JAMES POSEY

Make your writing memorable.
A.D. POSEY

A day’s brightness is determined by the light in our hearts.
A.D. POSEY

The power of classical music turns my words into fire.
A.D. POSEY

Live in the now and the how will take care of itself.
A.D. POSEY

A writer’s breakthrough is a breakdown with a smile.
A.D. POSEY

Comedians are people who embarrass themselves in style.
A.D. POSEY

It's his demeanor, how he walks, that confident strut.
JAMES POSEY

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.
A.D. POSEY

You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.
A.D. POSEY

Crying cleanses the soul.
A.D. POSEY

Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.
A.D. POSEY

The best writing speaks when the heart whispers.
A.D. POSEY

The more of those little light bulbs that can turn on the better. Eventually you’ll have enough to...
A.D. POSEY

In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens.
A.D. POSEY

Wow, what a game. That game didn't surprise me one bit. It was a typical Jeff Davis-Carver game.
TERRY POSEY

Be your best company.
A.D. POSEY

Be your best gift.
A.D. POSEY

Be the best you.
A.D. POSEY

The best writing is embarrassing; that’s all there is to it.
A.D. POSEY

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.
A.D. POSEY

Don’t look.
See.
Don’t think.
Feel.
Don’t hear.
Listen.
Pay at...
A.D. POSEY

We just want to get our confidence going.
JAMES POSEY

Always choose love over fear.
A.D. POSEY

I already won.
A.D. POSEY

We had some opportunities tonight, but we just couldn't finish when we needed to. That's something t...
BUSTER POSEY

It was a lot of fun tonight. You could start to feel the tension in the air. You don't say anything ...
BUSTER POSEY

This was a lot of fun. It was great to get out here and hear the fans. It was a little unreal at fir...
BUSTER POSEY

Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean.
A.D. POSEY

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.
A.D. POSEY

Don’t just raise the bar… Raise the roof.
A.D. POSEY

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to t...
A.D. POSEY

Every work of art tells a story.
A.D. POSEY

If you don’t think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.
A.D. POSEY

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.
A.D. POSEY

There is magic in the old and magic in the new; the trick is to successfully combine the two.
A.D. POSEY

Reading sparks writing.
A.D. POSEY

Don’t just hit a home run. Knock it out of the park.
A.D. POSEY

At least I’m not afraid, and no one will ever call me boring.
A.D. POSEY

I’d rather be a fool than afraid.
A.D. POSEY

Screenwriting is made of brevity.
A.D. POSEY

We've been inconsistent with it. Now is when we have to get consistent.
JAMES POSEY

I'm not expecting this to be the last one.
JAMES POSEY

He's explosive, he's going to get a lot of looks. You just try to make him work. You try to limit hi...
JAMES POSEY

We're getting a little closer.
JAMES POSEY

If someone tells you something is impossible, make it possible.
A.D. POSEY

Life isn’t life without real butter.
A.D. POSEY

Comfort yields complacency. Break free.
A.D. POSEY

I think every writer has a little freak in ‘em.
A.D. POSEY

Whatever you do, let it be lovely.
A.D. POSEY

I hear you in the morning sun.
A.D. POSEY

Beauty is a heart with wings.
A.D. POSEY

Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.
A.D. POSEY

All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.
A.D. POSEY

There is nothing beautiful about perfection; those imperfections that you hate so much about yoursel...
PARKER

Advertising is "a ten billion dollar a year misunderstanding with the public.
CHESTER L. POSEY

When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist....
TREY PARKER

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
GILBERT PARKER

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin...
NATE PARKER

You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&...
PARKER STEVENSON

In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off th...
PARKER YOUNG

I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high inten...
PARKER YOUNG

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I pla...
PARKER YOUNG

Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables a...
PARKER YOUNG

I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, ...
PARKER YOUNG

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philo...
PARKER YOUNG

I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I...
PARKER YOUNG

In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
PARKER STEVENSON

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong...
PARKER STEVENSON

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
PARKER STEVENSON

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-c...
PARKER STEVENSON

I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
PARKER STEVENSON

I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
PARKER STEVENSON

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in...
PARKER STEVENSON

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with pe...
PARKER STEVENSON

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say ...
PARKER STEVENSON

Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that i...
PARKER STEVENSON

During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought t...
PARKER STEVENSON

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it w...
PARKER STEVENSON

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewe...
PARKER STEVENSON

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, ...
PARKER STEVENSON

The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyon...
PARKER STEVENSON

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeas...
PARKER STEVENSON

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
PARKER STEVENSON

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initiall...
PARKER STEVENSON

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style,...
PARKER STEVENSON

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and...
PARKER STEVENSON

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scr...
PARKER STEVENSON

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.
PARKER STEVENSON

I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette...
PARKER STEVENSON

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of thin...
PARKER PALMER

Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the...
PARKER PALMER

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be...
PARKER PALMER

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we&...
PARKER PALMER

We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audie...
PARKER PALMER

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, iron...
PARKER PALMER

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing w...
PARKER PALMER

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop co...
PARKER PALMER

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my l...
PARKER PALMER

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements va...
PARKER PALMER

We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in v...
PARKER PALMER

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.
PARKER PALMER

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of &...
PARKER PALMER

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimate...
PARKER PALMER

I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me goin...
MACEO PARKER

People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a...
MACEO PARKER

Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really w...
MACEO PARKER

When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap pro...
MACEO PARKER

I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift...
MACEO PARKER

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.
MACEO PARKER

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what...
MACEO PARKER

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
ALAN PARKER

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
GILBERT PARKER

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
CHARLIE PARKER

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it...
DOROTHY PARKER

It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

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