Parker Posey Quotes

There are worse things than getting pigeonholed in Hollywood.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

No one ever comes up to me and says, 'Hey man, I loved your work in 'Road Trip.' They say, 'Are you that guy?' Like, they have no idea. 'Were you in 'American Pie 2?'

It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years. I was off the studio lists. I wasn't getting the roles offered to actors that hadn't done a third of the roles I had done or had the popularity I had.

It seemed too glamorous to me to be an actress like in the movies.

You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look. Don't cry. You're not that girl either.' 'Oh yeah? What girl am I?' 'I'll let you know when I figure it out. Just don't cry.

It's annoying when people confuse you with the character.

For years, they cast me in these dumb straight roles of businessmen in three-piece suits.

I don't know myself why directors are offering me negative roles, although I did 'Yaddein' after 'Mission Kashmir' in which I played a very positive character, but people don't remember that.

Fans don't even know what they want at times.

When Miranda first started becoming popular, not many people knew who she was. People were confused by her. They thought she was a real person. I got a lot of interesting responses.

I grew up in this industry. I've seen fame up close.

I like 'Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time Period' podcast.

Glamour is a very small aspect of being an actress.

I've done a lot of different characters, but people never recognize me. I'm not joking.

Because I'm so in the eye of the hurricane, I don't have a really good perception of what's happening. I'm in a room talking to people, and that's all I know. But sometimes I go out of these rooms - I live in L.A., and every now and then, maybe twice a week, I'll be somewhere, and someone will say, 'Hey, are you the guy that made Moonlight?'

I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.

I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.'

Not many know that I had done a fiction show called 'Kayaamat' for exactly one month. I also did 'Ek Thi Rajkumari,' though I don't think anyone watched the show. That was the plan - I wanted to be on TV, but in such a way that no one watched me.