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Marcia Gay Harden
1959 • American • Actress
60
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Showing 60 quotesI'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.— Marcia Gay Harden
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.— Marcia Gay Harden
They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.— Marcia Gay Harden
Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on cosmetic surgery because you never have to have liposuction.— Marcia Gay Harden
I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.— Marcia Gay Harden
I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.— Marcia Gay Harden
The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better.— Marcia Gay Harden
In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.— Marcia Gay Harden
I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.— Marcia Gay Harden
If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.— Marcia Gay Harden
After I won the Oscar for 'Pollock,' some newspaper printed, 'She should get a million-dollar bump.' My sisters would write me, 'You're gonna get this million-dollar bump!'— Marcia Gay Harden
In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.— Marcia Gay Harden