Parker Posey Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

Trivia

Posey has also appeared in 2006 in a commercial for Pepsi Cola opposite Jimmy Fallon dancing to the song "Newton - Streamline."

She has had a recurring role on the television series Will & Grace, as Jack's high-maintenance boss at Barneys.

Posey and her twin brother, Chris, were raised in Monroe, Louisiana and Laurel, Mississippi.

She attended Purchase College, where she roomed with actress Sherry Stringfield.

She was considered for the role of "Dorothy Boyd" in Jerry Maguire.

She and the other cast members have been playing concerts in role as the bands from A Mighty Wind, so far they have played at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in May, 2003 and will be doing more concerts in Washington, D.C., Boston, Massachusetts, and Upper Darby, Pennsylvania in September, 2003.

Her favorite musicians include Belle & Sebastian, Sigur R?s, and Mighty Flashlight.

Reuters rated her #19 in the 2003 edition of their annual "What Ever Happened to...? list.

One of Parker's current interests is making pottery.

She was named "Queen of Indies" by Time magazine since she has appeared in some 30 films since 1994, most of them low-budget independent movies.

She has a twin brother, Chris, who practices law in Atlanta.