Quote: "My son looked at Lance and said, 'He won an Oscar? He looks awfully young to have won an Oscar!'" Actress Mary-Louise Parker surprised her 13-year-old son William when she told him Dustin Lance Black, the creator of her new TV drama When We Rise, had won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 2008 film Milk.
Fact: Actress Mary-Louise Parker is heading back to the New York stage to star in new Off Broadway play Heisenberg. The production, penned by The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time writer Simon Stephens, will feature the Weeds star as a woman who falls for a much older man, played by Kenneth Welsh, at a London train station. Mark Brokaw will direct the play, which will run for six weeks from 19 May (15) at the Studio at Stage Ii. Parker last appeared onstage in 2013 in Broadway's The Snow Geese.
Quote: "At first, I had this idea that I was going to get a donkey, and I was on Donkeyrescue.com for weeks in my trailer making Red 2. But then John Malkovich persuaded me to get dwarf goats instead - they are way less maintenance than a donkey." Actress Mary-Louise Parker credits her Red 2 co-star John Malkovich with helping her to pick out her new pets.
Quote: "People always say, 'She seems like she's high as a kite'. It would be redundant for me to smoke pot. I don't need anything to make me loopy; I don't need any help with that." Actress Mary-Louise Parker insists she's nothing like the marijuana mum she plays in hit Tv show Weeds.
Quote: "He's very foxy... We get along really, really well. He's seriously, completely appealing. He's lovely." Mary-Louise Parker on romancing Bruce Willis in the Red movies.
Quote: "We found this stack of old Penthouse magazines and we did dramatic readings of the Penthouse letters. He would narrate them... That was really entertaining for us." Actress Mary-Louise Parker on how she and Red 2 co-star John Malkovich had fun between takes.
Fact: Actress Mary-Louise Parker will be competing against herself at the box office when Red 2 and R.I.P.D. open in America on the same day (19Jul13).
Fact: Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker is returning to the Broadway stage for new play Snow Geese in autumn (13). The actress, who won a Tony Award in 2001 for Proof, will play a widow who hosts a family gathering during hunting season against a World War I backdrop.
Quote: "Becoming a mum is the best thing that's happened to me. I'll be the first to admit that it can be very hard to raise two kids, but I absolutely love it. I can't imagine what my life would be without my children." WEEDS star Mary-Louise Parker is happiest at home with her two kids, son Atticus, five, and three-year-old daughter Caroline, who she adopted from Ethiopia in August 2007.
Quote: "I'm truly a bad driver. I daydream and I can't concentrate. I have to pay for people to drive me." WEEDS actress Mary-Louise Parker refuses to get behind the wheel while living in Los Angeles.
Quote: "I'm truly a bad driver. I daydream and I can't concentrate. I have to pay for people to drive me." WEEDS actress Mary-Louise Parker refuses to get behind the wheel while living in Los Angeles.
Quote: "If one of my kids... said, 'I want to be a movie star,' I would be like, 'Go to your room.'" Actress Mary-Louise Parker hopes her children don't want to follow her into showbusiness.
Quote: "I'm a little jittery at night. I don't like the dark so much." WEEDS star Mary-Louise Parker is afraid of the dark.
Fact: Golden Globe nominee Mary-Louise Parker has been named the Entertainer Of The Year in gay magazine Out. Other celebrities honoured on the new Out 100 include singers Beth Ditto, Marc Almond, actor Alan Cumming and filmmaker JOHN WATERS.
Quote: "I didn't have anyone to tell. The three year olds don't really care." WEEDS star Mary-Louise Parker had a low-key celebration with her young son WILLIAM when she heard she'd been nominated for a Golden Globe last week (ends17DEC06).
Quote: "It's really only necessary for two people to have a few things in common: sex, food and vacation destinations." BOYS ON THE SIDE star Mary-Louise Parker insists finding a boyfriend is easy.