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Marcia Gay Harden
American
Actress
Born:
Aug 14
,
1959
Always
Me
People
Think
Work
You
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In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.
Marcia Gay Harden
Feels
Like
Lot
Hollywood
Acting
I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.
Marcia Gay Harden
Phones
Think
Laura
Laura Bush
Piece
Got
Afterwards
Bush
Played
Tony
I do pottery.
Marcia Gay Harden
Pottery
You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.
Marcia Gay Harden
You
See
Get
Theater
Manipulate
Viewer
Film
Sometimes I ride my bike to see the kids after a matinee and then ride back to do the show. That's the hard part, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Marcia Gay Harden
Ride
Sometimes
Other
Back
Way
Kids
See
Part
Any
Any Other Way
After
Bike
Then
Hard
Show
Hard Part
The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.
Marcia Gay Harden
People
Heroes
Those
Hook
Out
Were
Normal
Stood
Children
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Sandy
Who
Incident
Save
You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'
Marcia Gay Harden
Character
Me
You
People
Relate
Someone
Could
Like
Know
Go
Been
Want
Them
I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.
Marcia Gay Harden
Life
Amazing
Car
Everyday Life
Drive
Everyday
Had
Blessings
Person
Lived
Career
In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.
Marcia Gay Harden
Action
Films
Guys
Female
Male
Role
Roles
Any
Heavy
Action Films
Film
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!'
Marcia Gay Harden
Me
You
Would
Some
Write
She
Printed
Bump
Won
Sisters
Get
After
Newspaper
Gonna
Should
Oscar
If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.
Marcia Gay Harden
You
Crime
Think
Perceive
Someone
Authority
Committed
Them
Turn
Should
Whomever
I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.
Marcia Gay Harden
Work
Great
Some
Writers
Been
Lucky
Tony
I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.
Marcia Gay Harden
Failure
You
Think
Bad
Visualize
Bad Thing
Off
Really
Thing
Starting
You've got to understand what makes the character human.
Marcia Gay Harden
Character
You
Makes
Understand
Got
Human
Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.
Marcia Gay Harden
Neighborhood
Has-Been
Always
Been
Very
Harlem
It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.
Marcia Gay Harden
Important
Kids
Like
Learn
Testing
Really
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.
Marcia Gay Harden
Love
Time
Cooking
Hate
Mother
Kids
Laundry
Could
Takes
Housewife
Because
Being
Away
You know what I miss? I miss myself, that time to just do things for myself.
Marcia Gay Harden
Time
Myself
You
Miss
Know
Just
Things
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.
Marcia Gay Harden
Me
People
Other
Others
Characteristics
Characters
Examine
Make
Always
Transform
Them
Playing
Anybody who is really walking with the Lord is embracing the foibles and the beauties and the differences of humanity, regardless of race, color, creed, economic stature and sexual proclivity, whatever. You embrace the beauty of humanity and not be exacting and belittling about the differences.
Marcia Gay Harden
You
Humanity
Beauty
Whatever
Differences
Stature
Embrace
Exacting
Sexual
Embracing
About
Economic
Color
Beauties
Lord
Walking
Anybody
Regardless
Race
Really
Who
Creed
We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.
Marcia Gay Harden
Day
Age
Phones
Cell Phones
Incredibly
Computers
Day And Age
Disconnected
Cell
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.
Marcia Gay Harden
Teacher
Me
Science
School
Made
Worthy
Inspired
Had
Simply
Feel
She
Because
Offer
Middle
Middle School
Acknowledged
Who
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
Marcia Gay Harden
Good
Day
Book
Joy
Reading
Summer
Kids
Lazy
Hammock
Goes
Just
Good Book
Swing
Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.
Marcia Gay Harden
Life
Me
Experience
King
Life Experience
Texas
Working
It's hard to balance work and family.
Marcia Gay Harden
Work
Family
Balance
Hard
I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.
Marcia Gay Harden
Day
Experience
Every Day
People
Every
Relate
Everyday
Everyday People
Arc
About
Deal
Roles
Human
Human Experience
Things
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