Patricia Richardson Quotes

Life really is a series of contrasts.

Working with Ricky Gervais one week, Rutger Hauer another week, John Stamos, was fantastic.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.

To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'

There are two words for everything.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I've had a wonderful time in 'Foyle's War' and I don't mind being typecast. But I'm not prim. I'm chaotic, happy, and desperate to have some laughs. I'd love to do a comedy next, or something modern.

I think I appear very innocent and soft, but I'm actually very dark and edgy. It's a weird dichotomy.

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy.

I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that's why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it's something that's the antithesis of what I am, there's much more to lose yourself in.

I saw this new thing called television, and I saw people throwing pies in each other's faces, and I thought, 'This could be a wonderful tool for education! Why is it being used this way?' So I said to my parents, 'You know, I don't think I'll go into seminary right away. I think I'll go into television.'

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

I also had a hosting position on a home and garden television show - which is a joke if you ever see my apartment.

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

All of the universe will be divided into two parts.

It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.

It's interesting to explore the darker side, but the hero piece is interesting as well. It's like choosing between comedy or drama. I like to do both.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.

I don't like drama in my life, but I like reading about it.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.