Quotes by Molly Parker

• In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
• I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.
• As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
• Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.
• I really understand where Alice is coming from - I've been in exactly the same place coming from a small town and knowing that I need to do other things, that I have to leave.
• I still don't look like what I think I look like.
• Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.
• The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.
• I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.