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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.


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.


I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.


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.


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


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


They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.


I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn't have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works.


Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.


I'm not a big fan of mediocre.


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


Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.


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.


It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.


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.


My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.


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


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


In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.


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