Marcia Gay Harden Quotes

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Marcia Gay Harden

Profession : Actress

Birth : August 14, 1959

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

Marcia Gay Harden

I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.

Marcia Gay Harden

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

Marcia Gay Harden

The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'

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

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

If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.

Marcia Gay Harden

Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.

Marcia Gay Harden

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.

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 think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.

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 loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.

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

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

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.

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You've got to understand what makes the character human.

Marcia Gay Harden

I've never really liked horror films.

Marcia Gay Harden

It's hard to balance work and family.

Marcia Gay Harden

I'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