Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

You know what I miss? I miss myself, that time to just do things for myself.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

I do pottery.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

You want to know how I'm feeling? Just look at me, and I'll tell you how I'm feeling. Nothing is hidden. I'm all out there. I cry like a baby, I get upset, I stamp my feet. I'm not stoic.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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.

Marcia Gay Harden
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
Marcia Gay Harden

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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.'

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you need the space, and then somebody throws you a joke. Especially if it's an emotional scene, you don't want the joke.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

Marcia Gay Harden
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.