Patricia Clarkson Quotes

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

I have one female fan. But she lives with me. I'm not aware of any others.

It's good to be able to be a leading lady, to be a romantic lead, to play opposite people who are talented, and charismatic and stuff.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

I always think the most romantic books or films are the ones where the romance doesn't happen, because it makes your heart ache so much watching it.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

For me, 'I Can't Make You Love Me' is one of the most brilliantly-written songs ever.

'The Ways of a Woman in Love' is one of my very favorite early Johnny Cash songs. I like the way the lyric talks about the character walking by the girl's house and wishing he was the one in her arms.

As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.

That's the dating world. You just keep losing. Everyone does.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life.

When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

I was comfortable in my thirties playing the romantic partner, the hero that saves the day, or the woman who is facing a world that revolves around younger kid actors.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.