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
To be a woman in law enforcement on television, I think, is sort of important. It's a powerful position for a woman to be in, but also to be looking at these new technologies, exploring these new technologies.
The interesting thing about cybercrime and the whole cyber world is that many of the people that are most proficient in it are young people, really young people.
Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.
A six year old can probably do more on their iPad than you can do and access more. My daughter's swiping away windows and doing all these things that I don't know how to do.
I'm not a technical person. It's not something I personally do love. I'm actually terrified of it, and that is what's interesting to me about it.
Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.
If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.
I definitely isolate, but I also always have people in front of me, and I have to be OK with that. I'm in a business where, on the set, you're around two hundred people every day, and if you're high on the call sheet, you sort of set the tone for the set. And you want people to feel appreciated, and you want to ask them how their kids are. You want to talk to people and invest in them and let them know that they're appreciated and heard. But then I do like to just kind of withdraw.
Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.
I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.
Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.
Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our children and to try to do all these different things. The expectations have changed drastically, and thank God they have. Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.
There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.
I think there can always be beauty in struggle.