I know I've been really blessed in my life.
— Patricia Arquette
I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.
I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.
Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.
I've crafted a really weird career for myself.
There really is a lot of pressure on actresses to look a strange and unrealistic way. You're not supposed to age. You're supposed to be perpetually incredibly attractive because that's the way the movie world is.
I love small weird art movies, and I love free mass entertainment.
I don't think I would have had much of a career if I didn't have my son.
Some people will stop a scene and demand a mirror and look at themselves and check which angles they're being photographed from. I don't do that.
You want your partner to objectify you.
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.
We all have our own little thing, I think.
If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.
I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.
I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.
When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.
My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.
Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.
I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.
For some people, when you walk into a room, what your fame means to them can be like pointing a weird gun at them. It triggers something. They might get really giggly or flirty or cold or confrontational.
Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
I find that men are far more vain than women.
I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
In Hollywood, nobody knows how much everyone is making. It's all very hidden, and it's hard to change those things.
I feel like I'm getting the best parts of my career in my 50s.
Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.
I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.
Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.
We never thought 'Boyhood' was ever gonna become Oscar-considered. Our shooting budget was $2.8m for 12 years. Altogether. I didn't know if anyone would see it or appreciate it.
This idea of the world expecting you to remain an ingenue forever - it's a very short shelf life if you're going to commit to that as your career, and I knew that early.
We all go through life living in little bubbles, which we share with people who think pretty much the same as us.
I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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.
I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
