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• I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.
  • Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
• For so long, I didn't play the object of attention or affection. It wasn't until L.A. Story that anyone cast me in a role that had my sexuality as a point of interest or focus or operation. I just wasn't examined in the same way that a 'pretty girl' would be.
  • Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
• I didn't think I was going to be a person who other people knew, whose name was recognizable.
  • Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
• Anything having to do with food is pleasurable for me. Any conversation about food, review of food, story of food, picture of food, thought of food...
  • Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
• Just because people don't have money doesn't mean they don't desire the same thing. They should have it, and it should be good.
  • Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
• I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.
  • Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
• It never grows old, putting on a beautiful dress. For me, it's a great distraction. It's always ridiculous, and it always feels like it should be happening to somebody else.
  • Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
• My instinct was that it felt personal. It was really about 'We don't like her.' Who were the judges and critics? I would like to ask them, 'What exactly is it that you personally find not sexy about me? Is it my figure? Is it my brain that bothers you?'
  • On being named the Unsexiest Woman Alive by Maxim magazine
  • Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008
• That's the beauty of this country — we can have different opinions and coexist and be amused by each other and hurt and offended.
  • Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008

Attributed

• According to Dolores Fuller, upon meeting Parker for the first time at the press party after the 'Ed Wood' movie opened (Parker portrayed Fuller in the film), Parker said "I just got through telling everybody that I just played the part of the worst actress in the history of film."

• When she was asked, on the David Letterman Show, by David Letterman, "What's Dolores like, is she still alive? What did she do with her life?" Parker turned her head and said, "I'm going home and have a ground glass cocktail."

• I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

• When she finally won after losing Emmy after Emmy. she finally got one in 2004, after 5 losses. After she won, she said, "Thank you. I've never won anything in my life."

• Derek Jeter is off the disabled list and Chuck Knoblauch is not throwing the ball away. All is right with the world.

• I've heard The Tapes, and it's not true what they said about my fig! It's very tight once you get me going.

• I know that he (Matthew Broderick) doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind.

• I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

• You can't do four movies and be good to everybody and be flying all night and shooting all day with a different wig and then be going to sing on Broadway without feeling a little tired. You endlessly feel you're letting somebody down. (Stay golden, Pony-boy!)