Marcia Gay Harden Quotes

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

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • You
  • Child
  • Divorce

• What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Life
  • Childhood

• I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Always
  • Destiny

• The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Money
  • Space
  • Ideas

• Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

  Lara Stone
  • Nice
  • Color
  • Lips

• Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Summer

• I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's just say shirts that were once button-able are no longer. I'm constantly being roasted by my wife.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Dog
  • Sick

• I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • People
  • Real
  • Girl

• In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • War
  • Government
  • Present

• Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Today
  • Lies
  • Sea

• The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Better

• Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to the ease of self-publishing; 2013 could see even more titles grace our virtual bookstores! That means we are going to be awash in covers and titles, plot descriptions and characters.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • See
  • Grace
  • Thanks

• I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Done
  • Same
  • Integrity

• I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Writer

• 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.

  

  Randall Park
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Favorite

• From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is

  

  W. H. Davies

• Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Thanks

• Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Catholic

• Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life.

  

  Arthur Trudeau
  • Character
  • Laws
  • Build

• Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

  

  Charlie Ergen
  • Kids
  • Food
  • Alcohol

• I was a big admirer of F.D.R. He saved Britain.

  

  Kenneth Branagh

• Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.

  

  James Wan
  • People
  • World
  • Different

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

  

  Marcia Gay Harden