Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette
Patricia Arquette is an American actress. She made her film debut in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Her notable films include Tony Scott's True Romance, Tim Burton's Ed Wood, David O. Russell's Flirting with Disaster, David Lynch's Lost Highway, Stephen Frears's The Hi-Lo Country, Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead, and Andrew Davis's Holes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth8 April 1968
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.
There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.
I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America!
There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand; you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.
I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.
You always have to sign contracts for several years, if they want to pick you up. It's kind of a strange scenario. They have the option or not.
Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.
It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.
The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.
I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.
It's always beautiful to see people striving to grow.
I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.
It's easy for people to come in when they think you're in a hot moment of your life, but it's really nice also for people who believe in your work for the long term and are there not when something hip's happening at that moment.