Marcia Gay Harden Quotes

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Marcia Gay Harden

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 14, 1959

As a mother, I love the Leapster handheld because it really delivers on educating children while they play. My daughter enjoys it because it's fun and touches on all of the activities she is interested in - videos, books and art.

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In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.

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I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.

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My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.

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I always wanted to be in movies.

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So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

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A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

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There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

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In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It's brave of him.

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I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

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I do pottery.

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I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.

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Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

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I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.

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Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.

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Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.

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You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

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Sometimes I ride my bike to see the kids after a matinee and then ride back to do the show. That's the hard part, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

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Isn't it nice not to have to compartmentalize yourself?

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The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

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