Marcia Gay Harden Quotes
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You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.
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In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.
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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.
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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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I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.
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I always wanted to be in movies.
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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.
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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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I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.
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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 kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.
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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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Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.
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I don't think any extremism is rational.
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You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.
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The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'
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I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.
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I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.
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It's very hypocritical to constantly say, 'We want to keep our kids close,' then send them home with so much homework that family time becomes nonexistent.
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With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.
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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!'
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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.
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I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.
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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.'