Louise Quotes

On Thelma & Louise after her nomination for best actress, 1992, "I was surprised that the film struck such a primal nerve. I knew when we were filming that it would be different, unusual and hopefully entertaining. But shocking? I guess giving women the option of violence was hard for a lot of people to accept."

When asked who has been the biggest influence on his career, he says, "Mary Louise (Parker, his girlfriend and fellow actor) is a tremendous influence on me. She has incredible discipline. She takes the time day-to-day to watch people, to listen to people. To understand why people do things. And to me, a great actor is someone who`s incredibly compassionate. To me, that`s really it as far as an actor is concerned".

The thing that`s always bothered me is that, even if you have a strong female character, invariably in the third act she has to say something like, "I`m sorry, I didn`t mean to hurt you," or she has to become really vulnerable and wimpy and get her comeuppance. Even in something like Thelma & Louise (1991), where you have these two very strong characters, they have to die in the end. What`s so special about The Last Seduction (1994) is that none of that happens. Had a Hollywood studio made that film instead of an independent, it would have been very different. She definitely wouldn`t have gotten away with what she does get away with.

I saw Tina recently and she is so thin! I mean, I give her credit for staying in shape, but the women needs to eat some lunch! On her Gilligan`s Island co-star Tina Louise in 2004.

I started going to Madame Louise`s, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they`ve seen me somewhere else before.