Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parkeris an American actress and author. Best known for her lead role on Showtime's television series Weeds portraying Nancy Botwin, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2006. Parker has appeared in films and series including RED, RED 2, Fried Green Tomatoes, Boys on the Side, The West Wing, and Angels in America, for which she received a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Parker is also the recipient of the 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth2 August 1964
CityColumbia, SC
CountryUnited States of America
My mother is a beauty.
Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater.
I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.
Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.
Mediocrity is underrated.
I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a regularity to the schedule. You have to finish an episode by a certain day. Movies can just go on interminably.
I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
There's a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people's trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it's hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun.
The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
It's the best part of the whole movie. John Malkovich with a pink pig is - you can't get better than that. Then John Malkovich alone and then you add a pink pig.
It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.