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.

Patricia Arquette

Mom Business You

Every single lesbian and transgender woman is a woman.

Patricia Arquette

Woman Very Transgender

I don't think I would have had much of a career if I didn't have my son.

Patricia Arquette

Car Would Think

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.

Patricia Arquette

Will Which Top

Frankly, there is no shorter shelf life other than that of a child actor, than that of the ingenue.

Patricia Arquette

Life Than T

If we don't allow people to vote in America, what is our democracy? It's a sham.

Patricia Arquette

Vote T People

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.

Patricia Arquette

Space Your You

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.

Patricia Arquette

Hope Change Yup

I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.

Patricia Arquette

Alone Who Takes

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.

Patricia Arquette

War Wanted Want

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.

Patricia Arquette

Life Car Your

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

Patricia Arquette

Think Thin T

I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film.

Patricia Arquette

Through Think Thin

We all have our own little thing, I think.

Patricia Arquette

Think Thing Thin

I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.

Patricia Arquette

Art Up UN

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

Patricia Arquette

Work Movies Want

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.

Patricia Arquette

Relationship Marriage Love

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.

Patricia Arquette

Marriage Life Age

I find that men are far more vain than women.

Patricia Arquette

Women Men Vain

You want your partner to objectify you.

Patricia Arquette

Art Your You

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

Patricia Arquette

Will Views View

We all go through life living in little bubbles, which we share with people who think pretty much the same as us.

Patricia Arquette

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.

Patricia Arquette

I love small weird art movies, and I love free mass entertainment.

Patricia Arquette

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.

Patricia Arquette

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.

Patricia Arquette

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.

Patricia Arquette

My dad was an alcoholic, growing up, so I knew how scary that was from a child's perspective - the volatility.

Patricia Arquette

I've crafted a really weird career for myself.

Patricia Arquette

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.

Patricia Arquette

Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.

Patricia Arquette

I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.

Patricia Arquette

I feel like I'm getting the best parts of my career in my 50s.

Patricia Arquette

In Hollywood, nobody knows how much everyone is making. It's all very hidden, and it's hard to change those things.

Patricia Arquette

I know I've been really blessed in my life.

Patricia Arquette