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I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.
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There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.
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It's hard to balance work and family.
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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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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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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 don't think any extremism is rational.
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If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.
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I always wanted to be in movies.
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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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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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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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I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.
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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.'
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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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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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The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'
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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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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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I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.
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I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.
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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.
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In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
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Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.