Patricia Arquette is fully embracing life and aging.
“I really enjoy getting older,” the actress, who made her debut in 1987’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors,” told Page Six at the recent Planned Parenthood Of Greater New York Spring Into Action Gala.
Arquette, 58, credits the passing years with teaching her some hard-earned wisdom and important life lessons.
“I don’t take fools gladly,” she noted, adding, “I’m still coming to terms and trying on new things like saying ‘no.'”
The Academy Award winner, who took home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Boyhood” in 2015, acknowledged that she still struggles with that two-letter word.
“I still sometimes feel bitchy [about saying ‘no’], and maybe I don’t deliver it the best way,” she explained. “It’s like having boundaries. And how do you deliver that, or learn about all of that?”
Arquette began her career in movies like “True Romance,” but she’s really flourished in the last few years with appearances in TV shows like “The Act,” “Escape at Dannemora” and, of course, “Severance.”
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Last year, Arquette spoke to Page Six about trying to avoid being labeled Hollywood’s new It girl as a young actress.
“I really was conscious about trying to get out of that ingenue situation as quickly as possible,” she explained. “Beauty felt really dangerous to me and a bit scary. It also felt one-note, and felt like [it had] a short shelf life.”
“I didn’t want to be limited by my own beauty,” she added. “I didn’t even feel beautiful myself, but the world was treating me like that, so I always had a really intense conflict with that.”
The “Lost Highway” star also spoke to Page Six at the recent Planned Parenthood event about her growing alarm over how women are being portrayed on social media today.
“When Grok came out, millions and millions of nonconsensual sexual images of women and girls and kids were made immediately available,” she noted. “And then you look at the Epstein (files) situation … and you look at these podcasters, and all these people that are teaching boys to hate girls.”
Arquette argued that what’s needed is “a sex education about mutual respect” and teaching teens “what consent really means.”
The “Medium” actress also noted that Planned Parenthood is “the number one health care provider in America” and offers a lot more services than just abortion care — such as cancer screenings, breast exams and STI/STD testing and treatment.
With so many clinics being closed, it doesn’t just affect women; Arquette claims it also affects “men and our young kids,” too.
