I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

- Patricia Clarkson

I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.

- Patricia Clarkson

In 8th grade I started doing theatre and I remember it was as though I had taken a trip to a foreign land that I had never seen before yet felt compl…

- Patricia Clarkson

I will say from the outset, I think if you're great, you're great from the very beginning. And because I do think it is innate and I do think it is a…

- Patricia Clarkson

At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I think, empathetic and sympathetic to the film. I would never…

- Patricia Clarkson

I try to take off the rose-colored glasses and view it in all facets, but I probably would be lying if I didn't say that probably the way in for a fi…

- Patricia Clarkson

If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

- Patricia Clarkson

That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't…

- Patricia Clarkson

I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

- Patricia Clarkson