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• wouldn't say that I've done a lot. I'm one of a lot of people who did a little, and I want to do more.
• But when I read the script, ... I thought, 'Oh, my gosh. Well, this isn't nice stigmata like I thought stigmata was going to be -- angel sounds. All pretty.'
• He's my favorite actor, and watching him build a character from scratch and reveal itself -- it was really fascinating.
• creeping off the news.
• For days I've been obsessed with this Katrina thing.
• It was like being in a weird dream.
• Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.”
• For movie "Human Nature": "I made a pubic wig."
• I thought I'd throw down a bit of the east L.A. thing.
• This is like wartime. And all the poor, all the working poor who live from paycheck to paycheck. This is America. This is the richest country in the world. I can't sleep at night.
• I want to thank you for this honor, for putting me in this incredible company.
• This is a great honor, being nominated. That's beautiful. But this (Katrina) is happening right NOW. And trucks are coming back from the South saying people need diapers, supplies. ... Medium.
• They really did say my name, right?
• Also, in Hollywood you get pigeon holed.
• I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
• I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
• I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.
• Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
• We all have our own little thing, I think.
• I wanted to play a woman who looks normal. It's important for me to be real.
• I?m comfortable in this business. Maybe because my dad was an actor, as well as my grandparents and great-grandparents. And I also know that it?s a fickle business so I don?t trust it. There?s a lot I actually hate about it. But I do love acting and I do love the weird family that you...
• I wasn't sure where I stood on these matters when I first met with Allison DuBois, the real-life medium I play on the show. Then I figured it out. Between rolling and cut, I have to believe 100 percent. In real life, the role has made me more self-doubting and skeptical of my own belief system. Honestly, I'm not so sure where I stand.
• I think I got to work with great filmmakers because I take risky projects. That's the kind of artist I want to be.
• I was never trapped by the idea of having to enter what some call my family business. Yes, we have a huge family of actors known as the Arquettes, but it wasn't pushed on you to act. It just felt like the natural thing to do.
• Between "rolling" and "cut" I have to believe 100 percent. I do believe in this 100 percent. I do believe certain people have this capacity to do this. But I also 100 percent believe there're a lot of charlatans out there.
• You obviously have total freedom with a fictional character. Nobody can go back and say, "They don't talk like that. They don't walk like that. They don't wear their hair like that." But the positive aspect is that I don't know how it is to have this ability.
• To learn the psychic's life, I spent time with the real Allison DuBois. The beauty of Allison is she encourages people to be skeptical. She just hopes they can keep an open mind and simply entertain the idea that anything is possible.
• I'm a medium, but it's also about this character being a soccer mom and having a happy marriage. But she has this macabre, dark and gory other life that always butts in. But I also love the fact that this medium has a great marriage on the show.
• I wanted to play a woman who looks normal. It's important for me to be real .
Patricia Arquette Filmography
Year Movie
1986 - Pretty Smart1987 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1988 - Far North
1990 - Prayer of the Rollerboys
1991 - The Indian Runner
1991 - Wildflower
1992 - Trouble Bound
1992 - Inside Monkey Zetterland
1993 - True Romance
1993 - Ethan Frome
1994 - Ed Wood
1994 - Holy Matrimony
1995 - Beyond Rangoon
1996 - Flirting with Disaster
1996 - Infinity
1997 - Lost Highway
1997 - Nightwatch
1998 - The Hi-Lo Country
1999 - Bringing Out the Dead
1999 - Goodbye Lover
1999 - Stigmata
2000 - Little Nicky
2001 - Human Nature
2002 - The Badge
2002 - Searching for Debra Winger
2003 - Deeper Than Deep
2003 - Tiptoes
2003 - Holes
2003 - Abby Singer
2005 - Medium
2006 - Fast Food Nation
2013 - Boyhood
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