parker Quotes

“My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.”

“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.”

“I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.”

“I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.”

“I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.”

“Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.”

“It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.”

“Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning and life at that price is not worth living.”

“I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.”

“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.”