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'm the only nerd with a piece of paper,
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.
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.
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 think there can always be beauty in struggle. I mean, as far as childbirth, I had my son in the hospital, but then I had my daughter at home. There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.
Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.
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.
Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's working, and yes, she's taking care of her kids full time, and yes, she's a mom, but she's also in a great mood all the time."
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.
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.
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.
I know when we were really little, my mom would say to me, "If you can, the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, just get quiet and ask God, 'Who is Patricia?' You can feel your own nature and know who you are."
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.
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.