Marcia Gay Harden Quotes

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.

Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.

It's hard to balance work and family.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.