Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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.

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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
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
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
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
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
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
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
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
Marcia Gay Harden

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

Marcia Gay Harden
Marcia Gay Harden

I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.