Marcia Gay Harden Quotes

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• I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our…
• If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.
• I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.
• Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged…
• 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.
• I'm not a big fan of mediocre.
• 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…
• In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
• All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all…
• Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.
• In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.
• I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.
• I always wanted to be in movies.
• So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.
• There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.
• I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.
• I do pottery.
• My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended…
• 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…

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