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
I wouldn't say that I've done a lot. I'm one of a lot of people who did a little, and I want to do more.
Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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.
It's always beautiful to see people striving to grow.
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.
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.
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.
To really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing. Just being an actress in Hollywood is very vulnerable. To let all these other people decide whether you're really of value or not, you have to really be strong to know that, of course, they have a right to their opinion, but their opinion doesn't matter as far as yourself.
Of course, a lot of courtship and dating is about sexual attraction. If you're an attractive person, you have that sort of interest from people, whether you cater to it or not, but when you get older, that's not really the leading thing anymore.
Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.
This is a great honor, being nominated. That's beautiful. But this (Katrina) is happening right NOW. And trucks are coming back from the South saying people need diapers, supplies. ... Medium.
I thought I'd throw down a bit of the east L.A. thing.
I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.