You know, it’s a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. – Parker Posey
Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I’ve just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable. – Parker Posey
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. – Parker Posey
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. – Parker Posey
When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn’t take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we’d still go and find the ones with personality. – Parker Posey
Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, ‘I want to live in there someday.’ – Parker Posey
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. – 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
I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was ‘Party Girl’ or ‘House of Yes.’ But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter. – Parker Posey
Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn’t be as difficult. I can’t imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX. – Parker Posey
In case you don’t know this, we’re not in the ’90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign. – Parker Posey
Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. – 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’m the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl. – Parker Posey
It sounds so dramatic, but I’ll say it: Hollywood just doesn’t know what to do with me. And it’s not for lack of trying. – 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
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. – 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 really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it’s never enough. – Parker Posey
I like trying different foods. I’ve done vegetarian stuff, and I’ve gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I’m really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are. – Parker Posey
