Top 35 Lucy Parker Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It didn’t feel fleeting and solely physical. It didn’t feel like infatuation. It felt like... recognition. That.”

— Lucy Parker

2. “We’re all a hundred different things at once. A different person to everyone who knows us. And there are very few people we’ll ever love and trust enough to let them have – well, as much of the whole of ourselves as another person can know.”

— Lucy Parker

3. “This is Lily Lamprey. You seem to be under the impression that she’s an inanimate object brought into the building for your amusement.”

— Lucy Parker

4. “You aren’t born half a person, doomed to drift through life unfulfilled until you find someone who can validate you.”

— Lucy Parker

5. “Your body and mind is your own. Your happiness is your responsibility and your right.”

— Lucy Parker

6. “Showmanship was one of her biggest strengths onstage. She loved the audience, and they sensed it and loved her in return.”

— Lucy Parker

7. “Besides, he was suitably impressed that we chose Scotland. Puts it down to research for the role.” Lainie halted in her sneaky exploration of the small of his back. “I hope not. I don’t really see us as the Macbeths.” “No. They got on fairly well until the regicide.” “Beatrice and Benedick, maybe. With more bickering. And fewer rhyming couplets.”

— Lucy Parker

8. “In the immortal words of Radiohead, ’go and tell the king that the sky is falling in.”

— Lucy Parker

9. “My dad says that if you love people and they love you back, and you’re happy for each other when things are good and help each other when things are bad, and you don’t even mind too much when people in-ev-it-a-bly – ” she sounded out the word “ – try to grind your gears, then it’s family. He says if you’re related to someone and they don’t treat you well, they don’t deserve to be called family, and you can meet someone as a total stranger and they can become the best family.”

— Lucy Parker

10. “A long time ago, Lily had owned a Ken Doll. She’d once discovered that putting her thumbs on his neck and applying the exact right amount of pressure beneath his plastic ears caused his head to pop off. It probably wouldn’t work with Savage.”

— Lucy Parker

11. “It was a novelty to see a guy actually wearing a shirt in this building. Pecs aplenty. It would be a good slogan for the theatre’s website.”

— Lucy Parker

12. “My personality has not once altered under outside influence.” “Then I’m genuinely appalled, and your childhood nannies have my intense sympathy. You’ve got a bit of a nerve, don’t you think, accusing other people of vanity? You make Mr. Darcy look like the poster child for low self-esteem.”

— Lucy Parker

13. “Whenever I think I know the story, you turn the page on me.”

— Lucy Parker

14. “Still. Proud. Savages play by the rules; Lampreys get things done.”

— Lucy Parker

15. “Somewhere, even the Sith Emperor was looking at this guy’s management style and thinking “Bit harsh.”

— Lucy Parker

16. “The man was always overly dramatic. Holding a grudge for decades. All those years pretending to be Lear went to his head.”

— Lucy Parker

17. “He drained a bar dry last night and is managing to speak in iambic pentameter. I have two glasses of wine with dinner and I can barely decipher the TV Guide the next day. I’m so freaking old.” “Join.”

— Lucy Parker

18. “But life wasn’t a film. Problems didn’t disappear and “The End” wasn’t emblazoned across a lingering embrace the moment people succumbed to the inevitable and found the right moment to verbalise it. He.”

— Lucy Parker

19. “Nothing like working with friends. Everyone appreciated a hint that the Grim Reaper was breathing down their neck the moment they turned forty.”

— Lucy Parker

20. “As casual lunches went, this one felt more like the subtle tension and underlying subtext of a Hitchcock film.”

— Lucy Parker

21. “I like to make people happy, I like to hear laughter and see them leave smiling and humming the songs. I like popular fiction of all kinds, and I think it’s just as important as the lit that gets taught in class.”

— Lucy Parker

22. “For all his interest in history and the art and literature of the past, Freddy realised, Griff would always prioritise the present and the future.”

— Lucy Parker

23. “As he marched her to the second level, he heard muttering behind him. She really was going to have to work on her vocal range. If she wanted to make an impact when she called someone a “bossy prat,” she needed to project.”

— Lucy Parker

24. “Beards had magical transformative powers, especially for gentlemen of kind heart but minimal chin.”

— Lucy Parker

25. “Are you firing him?” Her voice squeaked as if she had uttered the most outrageous profanity. Voiced the great unspoken. The mere suggestion of firing Richard Troy was the theatrical equivalent of hollering “Voldemort!” in the halls of Hogwarts.”

— Lucy Parker

26. “Men in particular,” he went on, stating the loathsome truth, “are given a fair amount of leeway in the public eye.”

— Lucy Parker

27. “In fiction, falling in love seemed to happen in soft focus, all cheerful montages of pop music and soulful glances. In reality, it was raw and confronting, powerful and passionate, shifting every goalpost.”

— Lucy Parker

28. “Christ, we’ve only been here for five minutes. It’s like being stuck in the Tardis. Time has lost all meaning.” He turned away to ditch his cocktail glass, thus missing Lainie’s gobsmacked expression. A Doctor Who reference from her second-least-favorite person? Wonders never ceased.”

— Lucy Parker

29. “Death is not the end of love.”

— Lucy Parker

30. “Christ, we’ve only been here for five minutes. It’s like being stuck in the TARDIS. Time has lost all meaning.”

— Lucy Parker

31. “I wish you felt free. But I need you to be safe.”

— Lucy Parker

32. “It wasn’t an option, being away from home without her favourite books. Her Kindle was great for downtime between scenes at the studio, but when things went tits up, she needed her favourite characters physically in her hands.”

— Lucy Parker

33. “My friend’s mum said he’s very handsome. He’s quite old.” A regretful addendum. “But I think he is handsome. It’s a pity you’re Uncle Nick’s cake, or maybe you could be my dad’s girlfriend.”

— Lucy Parker

34. “Oh, I’m a dog person. I’m pretty sure that what you’re cuddling is the inside of a cushion. Although it sounds like a car alarm, which I admit adds to the confusion.”

— Lucy Parker

35. “On the English crisis scale, step one was drinking a cup of tea. Forgetting the entire concept of tea was off-.”

— Lucy Parker

36. “Death is not the end of love. In any and all of its forms.”

— Lucy Parker

37. “With her back to him, she experienced one of those extraordinary moments that only happened at rare intervals, where an invisible crossroads opened up and she was suddenly absolutely convinced that whatever small decision she made next would impact the rest of her life.”

— Lucy Parker