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
I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
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.
Mediocrity is underrated.
I don’t think it’s that controversial. I’m really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I’m surprised they weren’t.
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.
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.
My sister's fish tacos are out of control. I'd give her a restaurant if I were a gazillionaire.
My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.
My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.
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.
My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.
I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.
Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.