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
Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.
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 are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.
There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.
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.
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.
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.
Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug.
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.
I know I love my kids and I know they love me. I know I have beautiful friends and a great family, and I know I've been really blessed in this life.
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."